exsanguiousとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From Latin exsanguis, from ex (“out”) + sanguis, sanguinis (“blood”). Compare exsanguineous.

形容詞

exsanguious (comparative more exsanguious, superlative most exsanguious)

1. (archaic) Destitute of blood; bloodless.

   exsanguious liver

   • 1646, Thomas Browne, “Of the Cameleon”, in Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], London: […] T[homas] H[arper] 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.

2. (zoology, archaic) Without red blood.

   Insects are exsanguious.

参照

• “exsanguious”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.