exsanguinate
/ɪkˈsæŋɡwəˌneɪt/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: 1.07 in modern English
20
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
4
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "The substance of the brain was not congested but, on the contrary, exsanguinated."
- "At the battle of Ball's Bluff, I saw a soldier having a shot flesh-wound of the left arm, who was much weakened and exsanguinated from a venous hemorrhage that was caused by applying an improvised tourniquet above the wound (it was done by a comrade), and was readily stopped on removing the cause."
- "Dr. [J. Leonard] Corning first exsanguinates the part to be anæsthetized with an Esmarch bandage. He next applies a tourniquet above the bandage and the latter is removed."
- "A careful dissection, however, after exsanguinating the limb, suffices to prevent serious mischief, and even in the cases where the attending vein has been injured, necessitating its ligature or extirpation (eleven cases), no gangrene followed."
- "[O]ne of the inherent problems in the old rotating drum-type kidney was that you could rather easily exsanguinate the patient into the^([sic – meaning a?]) sausage casing in a matter of a few minutes unless you were Johnny on the spot, watching until the blood got back into the patient. I think an inherent design advantage would be one in which the machine could not contain an excess of blood and you couldn't physically exsanguinate the patient."
- "[']Each incident has been very different. In one case we had a family of five killed in a caravan at Warlingham, and four out of five of them were exsanguinated. But in another case, in Streatham, seven were killed at a Boy Scout get-together but only two were exsanguinated.' / 'Those victims who weren't exsanguinated,' I asked her. 'Did they have anything in common?[']"
Etymology
PIE word *h₁ésh₂r̥ Learned borrowing from New Latin exsanguinātus (“depleted of blood, exsanguinated; lacking blood, bloodless”), see -ate (verb-forming suffix). Exsanguinātus is a participial adjective formed on ex- (“out, from”) + sanguī̆s (sanguin-) (“blood”) + -ātus.
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ɪkˈsæŋɡwəˌneɪt/
- British English: /ɛkˈsæŋɡwɪneɪt/
Usage
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Derived Forms
Frequently Paired Words
desanguinate
desanguination
desanguinator
exsangueous
exsanguious
exsanguine
exsanguineous
sanguinary