exsanguination

American  

[eks-sang-gwuh-ney-shuhn] / ɛksˌsæŋ gwəˈneɪ ʃən /

noun

1. the act or process of draining or losing blood.

   With an extreme mite infestation, up to 6% of a bird’s blood can be drained daily, causing it to become anemic or even die by exsanguination.

2. the act or process of bleeding to death.

   The consequences can range from minor blood loss to exsanguination.

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Etymology

Origin of exsanguination

First recorded in 1820–30; exsanguinat(e) ( def. ) + -ion ( def. )

Example Sentences

In other words, something about life in the city appeared to rescue the finch babies from exsanguination by fly.

From National Geographic • Feb. 15, 2024

The event produced 320,000 Olympic-size swimming pools’ worth of lava in just three months — and the speedy exsanguination of the volcano’s shallow magma reservoir caused its summit to collapse dramatically.

From Washington Post • Dec. 22, 2022

We talked Monday about how the exsanguination of local news is depriving us of state polling.

From Fox News • Sep. 10, 2019

With funding from the military, Safar and Bellamy embarked on an entirely new area of research: to extend the window of opportunity for treating exsanguination cardiac arrest.

From The New Yorker • Nov. 20, 2016

As has been previously said, however, care should be exercised to avoid dangerous exsanguination of the trunk, and consequently of the respiratory and cardiac centers contained in the medulla.

From Scientific American Supplement No. 822, October 3, 1891 by Various