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English
Etymology
From Latin exsanguis, from ex (“out”) + sanguis, sanguinis (“blood”). Compare exsanguineous.
Adjective
exsanguious (comparative more exsanguious, superlative most exsanguious)
- (archaic) Destitute of blood; bloodless.
exsanguious liver
1646, Thomas Browne, “Of the Cameleon”, in Pseudodoxia Epidemica: , London: T H for Edward Dod, , →OCLC, 3rd book, page 162:The third is the paucitie of blood obſerved in this animal, ſcarce at all to be found but in the eye, and about the heart; which defect being obſerved, inclined ſome into thoughts, that the ayre was a ſufficient maintenance for theſe exauguious parts.
- (zoology, archaic) Without red blood.
Insects are exsanguious.
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