sanguinolent
Americanadjective
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of or relating to blood.
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containing or tinged with blood; bloody.
adjective
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Etymology
Origin of sanguinolent
1400–50; < Latin sanguinolentus, equivalent to sanguin- stem of sanguis blood + -olentus earlier form of -ulentus -ulent
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The intestinal contents in such cases were not colorless, but consisted of a sanguinolent, ichorous, putrid fluid.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 458, October 11, 1884 by Various
Success seemed a colourless name for the reward of his patience; something fiercely florid, something sanguinolent was more to the point.
From Nona Vincent by Henry James
Examination, on the 26th April.—Pericardium sound, but contained much sanguinolent serum.
From North American Medical and Surgical Journal, Vol. 2, No. 3, July, 1826 by Franklin Bache
Dysentery is a flux of the bowels with a sanguinolent discharge and excoriation of the intestines.
From Gilbertus Anglicus Medicine of the Thirteenth Century by Henry Ebenezer Handerson
Diarrhoea is a simple flux of the bowels, without either the sanguinolent discharges or the intestinal excoriation.
From Gilbertus Anglicus Medicine of the Thirteenth Century by Henry Ebenezer Handerson
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