sanies

[sey-nee-eez]

noun Pathology.

a thin, often greenish, serous fluid that is discharged from ulcers, wounds, etc.

Origin of sanies

First recorded in 1555–65, sanies is from the Latin word saniēs

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Examples from the Web for sanies

Historical Examples of sanies

Does the insect collect resin impaired by the weather, soiled by the sanies of rotten wood?
Bramble-bees and Others
J. Henri Fabre
She collects all these fragments and mixes them with choice loam in the spots where the sanies abounds.
The Glow-Worm and Other Beetles
Jean Henri Fabre
Every living creature has a humour, blood or sanies, the loss of which produces death.
Lives of Eminent Zoologists, from Aristotle to Linnus
William MacGillivray
Empima (empyema) is the hawking-up of sanies, with infection of the lung and a sanious habit.
Gilbertus Anglicus
Henry Ebenezer Handerson
They want something different: a wounded, a dying grub; a corpse dissolving into sanies.
The Life of the Fly
J. Henri Fabre

British Dictionary definitions for sanies

sanies

noun

pathol a thin greenish foul-smelling discharge from a wound, ulcer, etc, containing pus and blood

Word Origin for sanies

C16: from Latin, of obscure origin

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sanies in Medicine

sanies

[sā′nē-ēz′]

n. pl. sanies

A thin, fetid, blood-tinged fluid consisting of serum and pus discharged from a wound, an ulcer, or a fistula.