Definition of Cruor

1. n. The coloring matter of the blood; the clotted portion of coagulated blood, containing the coloring matter; gore.

Definition of Cruor

1. clotted blood [n -S]

Medical Definition of Cruor

1. Coagulated blood. Origin: L. Blood (that flows from a wound) (05 Mar 2000)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Cruor

crunching
crunchingly
crunchings
crunchtime
crunchy
crunk
crunker
crunkest
crunkle
crunkled
crunkles
crunkling
crunodal
crunode
crunodes
cruor (current term)
cruores
cruorin
cruors
crupper
cruppered
cruppering
cruppers
crura
crura membranacea ampullaria ductus semicircularis
crura of bony semicircular canals
crura ossea canalium semicircularium
crural
crural fascia

Literary usage of Cruor

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Course of Lectures on Physiology by Émile Küss, Mathias Marie Duval (1875)
"We know, too, that death generally ensues when half the blood has been drained away by hemorrhage, or rather, to speak correctly, when half the cruor has ..."

2. A Treatise on Man and the Development of His Faculties by Lambert Adolphe J. Quetelet, Adolphe Quetelet, Robert Knox (1842)
"On the other hand, the proportion of cruor is greater in the male, ... 129-099 cruor. Thus the blood of the male sex contains 32-9S1 more cruor than that of ..."

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