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Definition of Exsanguinates
1. exsanguinate [v] - See also: exsanguinate
Lexicographical Neighbors of Exsanguinates
Literary usage of Exsanguinates
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Diagnostics of internal medicine: A Clinical Treatise Upon the by Glentworth Reeve Butler (1909)
"It is said that if pressure on the finger tip completely exsanguinates the nail
bed not more than 50 per cent of ..."
2. Surgery, Its Principles and Practice by William Williams Keen (1908)
"Its name signifies a "flow of blood," and its greatest peril to the sufferer is
in its frequent and liberal bleeding, which often exsanguinates the patient. ..."
3. A Text-book on the practice of gynecology by William Easterly Ashton (1916)
"... not only difficult but even impossible, and in malignant cases the constant
loss of blood quickly exsanguinates the patient and hastens her death. ..."
4. Diseases of the Ear: A Text-book for Practitioners and Students of Medicine by Edward Bradford Dench (1919)
"As cocaine exsanguinates the membrane, it is well to use only a sufficient quantity
to produce anaesthesia, in order that the snare may remove as much of ..."
5. Pediatrics (1901)
"... because cocaine contracts the capillary vessels and by this method exsanguinates
the tissues and makes them contract down on the bone. ..."
6. Abstracts of War Surgery: An Abstract of the War Literature of General by United States Surgeon-General's Office, Surgeon-General's Office, United States (1918)
"The explanation of this fact is that either a steady, slow hemorrhage exsanguinates
the patient, or bleeding which had spontaneously ceased is set up again ..."
7. The Clinical Journal (1900)
"He fiw marks out with crayon the superficial veins, to obviate a possibility of
puncturing them, and next exsanguinates the limb with an elastic bandage and ..."
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