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Definition of Exsanguinous
1. Adjective. Destitute of blood or apparently so. "The bloodless carcass of my Hector sold"
Definition of Exsanguinous
1. a. See Exsanguious.
Definition of Exsanguinous
1. Adjective. (alternative form of exsanguious) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Exsanguinous
Literary usage of Exsanguinous
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1889)
"... are made in each tonsil at a sitting, and from three to six sittings suffice
at intervals often or twelve days. The procedure is usually exsanguinous; ..."
2. Medical and Surgical Reporter (1852)
"... who had been flooding profusely for several hours; had fainted a number of
times; pulse small and quick ; extremities cold, pale, wan, and exsanguinous; ..."
3. Sir Thomas Browne's Works: Including His Life and Correspondence by Thomas Browne, Simon Wilkin (1835)
"... and this number may be allowed in these inferior and exsanguinous animals,2
since we may observe the articulate and latticed eyes in flies, ..."
4. The Western Journal of Medicine and Surgery by Daniel Drake, Lundsford Pitts Yandell (1850)
"The body was found moderately rigid and perfectly exsanguinous. Not a drop of
blood appeared, at any point, in the track of the scalpel. ..."
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