sanguiferous

American  

[sang-gwif-er-uhs] / sæŋˈgwɪf ər əs /

adjective

1. conveying blood, as a blood vessel.

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Etymology

Origin of sanguiferous

First recorded in 1675–85; sangui- + -ferous

Example Sentences

Red flowers were given for derangement in the sanguiferous system, and yellow ones for those of the bile.

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In certain diseases, globules of pus have also been detected in the sanguiferous stream.

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But it also attends the scurvy, where no fever exists, and it therefore simply announces the inactivity of the terminations of some veins; and is thence indeed a bad symptom in fevers, as a mark of approaching inactivity of the whole sanguiferous system, or death.

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As the sanguiferous system, as well as the absorbent system, is furnished in many parts of its course with valves, which in general prevent the retrograde movement of their contained fluids; and as all these vessels, in some part of their course, lie in contact with the muscles, which are brought into action in running, it follows that the blood must be accelerated by the intermitted swelling of the bellies of the muscles moving over them.

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When the sanguiferous system is full of blood, the absorbents cannot act so powerfully, as the progress of their contents is opposed by the previous fulness of the blood-vessels; whence stimulants in that case increase the action of the secerning system more than of the absorbent one; but after copious evacuation this resistance to the progress of the absorbed fluids is removed; and when stimulants are then applied, they increase the action of the absorbent system more than that of the secerning one.

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