exsanguious
English edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
From Latin exsanguis, from ex (“out”) + sanguis, sanguinis (“blood”). Compare exsanguineous.
Adjective edit
exsanguious (comparative more exsanguious, superlative most exsanguious)
- (archaic) Destitute of blood; bloodless.
- exsanguious liver
- 1646, Thomas Browne, “Of the Cameleon”, in Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], London: […] T[homas] H[arper] for Edward Dod, […], →OCLC, 3rd book, page 162:
- The third is the paucitie 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 ayre was a ſufficient maintenance for theſe exauguious[sic – meaning exanguious] parts.
- (zoology, archaic) Without red blood.
- Insects are exsanguious.
References edit
- “exsanguious”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.