Exsanguious

adj

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Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Destitute of blood; bloodless. archaic

    "exsanguious liver"

  2. 2
    Without red blood. archaic

    "Insects are exsanguious."

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bleaklividpallidwanwashed out

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"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."

Etymology

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

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