sizy
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Very soon after impregnation, if blood be drawn and suffered to stand a short time undisturbed, it will become sizy, of a yellowish or bluish color, and somewhat of an oily appearance.
From Fruits of Philosophy A Treatise on the Population Question by Charles Knowlton
In this situation, if he saw the patient within 12 or 24 hours of her seizure, he took away from 16 to 24 ounces of blood, which was always sizy.
From Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life by Erasmus Darwin
I remember the old gentleman used to complain that his constitution was an unhappy one from birth, attended with 'flaccid solids, sizy and scarce fluids, and a low tide of spirits.'
From Flint His Faults, His Friendships and His Fortunes by Maud Wilder Goodwin
M. M. Hepatic inflammation is very liable to terminate in suppuration, and the patient is destroyed by the continuance of a fever with sizy blood, but without night-sweats, or diarrhœa, as in other unopened abscesses.
From Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life by Erasmus Darwin
Next Day, the 21st, her Blood appeared very sizy, and she complained of having been costive for some Days.
From An Account of the Diseases which were most frequent in the British military hospitals in Germany by Donald Monro
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