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exsanguious en · ADJ

Etymology

From Latin exsanguis, from ex (“out”) + sanguis, sanguinis (“blood”). Compare exsanguineous.

Meanings

1. (archaic) Destitute of blood; bloodless.
   • exsanguious liver
   • 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. 1646, Thomas Browne, “Of the Cameleon”, in Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], London: […] T[homas] H[arper] for Edward Dod, […], →OCLC, 3rd book, page 162:
2. (archaic) Without red blood.
   • Insects are exsanguious.

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