sanies
a thin, often greenish, serous fluid that is discharged from ulcers, wounds, etc.
Origin of sanies
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How to use sanies in a sentence
Empima (empyema) is the hawking-up of sanies, with infection of the lung and a sanious habit.
Gilbertus Anglicus | Henry Ebenezer HandersonIn three or four days, an oozing sanies appears under the animal and soaks the sand to some distance.
The Life of the Fly | J. Henri FabreThey want something different: a wounded, a dying grub; a corpse dissolving into sanies.
The Life of the Fly | J. Henri FabreI expected to see them putrefying, running into sanies, like corpses left to rot in the open air.
The Life of the Fly | J. Henri FabreCan the worm, constantly floundering in the sanies of a carcass, be itself in danger of inoculation by that whereon it grows fat?
The Life of the Fly | J. Henri Fabre
British Dictionary definitions for sanies
/ (ˈseɪnɪˌiːz) /
pathol a thin greenish foul-smelling discharge from a wound, ulcer, etc, containing pus and blood
Origin of sanies
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