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English
Etymology
From Late Latin meseraicus, from Hellenistic Ancient Greek μεσαραϊκός (mesaraïkós) (in Galen), from μεσάραιον (mesáraion, “mesaraeum”).
Adjective
meseraic (comparative more meseraic, superlative most meseraic)
- (anatomy, obsolete) Mesenteric.
- , Bk.I, New York 2001, pp.147-8:
- Blood is a hot, sweet, temperate, red humour, prepared in the meseraic veins, and made of the most temperate parts of the chylus in the liver .
Noun
meseraic (plural meseraics)
- (anatomy, obsolete) A mesenteric vein.
1646, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, II.5:it entreth not the veins with those electuaries, wherein it is mixed: but taketh leave of the permeant parts, at the mouths of the Meseraicks, or Lacteal Vessels, and accompanieth the inconvertible portion unto the siege.
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