sizy
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The pain is less than in enteritis, and the disease of longer continuance, with harder pulse, and the blood equally sizy.
From Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life by Darwin, Erasmus
In more than two hundred patients, male and female, who were let blood by venesection, there were only six, whose blood could be termed sizy.
From Observations on Insanity With Practical Remarks on the Disease and an Account of the Morbid Appearances on Dissection by Haslam, John
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 Darwin, Erasmus
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 Knowlton, Charles
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 Darwin, Erasmus
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