Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Diapedesis

Diapedesis , noun

[New Latin, from Greek {not transcribed} a leaping or oozing through, from {not transcribed} to leap through; dia` through + {not transcribed} to leap.]

(Medicine) The passage of the corpuscular elements of the blood from the blood vessels into the surrounding tissues, without rupture of the walls of the blood vessels.