sanies
[sey-nee-eez]
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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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Historical Examples of sanies
Does the insect collect resin impaired by the weather, soiled by the sanies of rotten wood?
Bramble-bees and OthersJ. 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 BeetlesJean Henri Fabre
Every living creature has a humour, blood or sanies, the loss of which produces death.
Lives of Eminent Zoologists, from Aristotle to LinnusWilliam MacGillivray
Empima (empyema) is the hawking-up of sanies, with infection of the lung and a sanious habit.
Gilbertus AnglicusHenry Ebenezer Handerson
They want something different: a wounded, a dying grub; a corpse dissolving into sanies.
The Life of the FlyJ. Henri Fabre
sanies
noun
Word Origin for sanies
C16: from Latin, of obscure origin
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sanies
[sā′nē-ēz′]
n. pl. sanies
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