exsanguious
English
Etymology
From Latin exsanguis, from ex (“out”) + sanguis, sanguinis (“blood”). Compare exsanguineous.
Adjective
exsanguious (comparative more exsanguious, superlative most exsanguious)
- (archaic) Destitute of blood; bloodless.
- 1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC:
- The third is the paucity of blood observed in this animal, scarce at all to be found but in the eye, and about the heart; which defect being observed, inclined some into thoughts that the ayr was a sufficient maintenance for these exsanguious parts.
- :exsanguious liver
- (zoology, archaic) Without red blood.
- Insects are exsanguious.
References
- “exsanguious”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
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