Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Pertaining to sanies, or partaking of its nature and appearance.
- Excreting or effusing: as, a sanious ulcer.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Med.) Pertaining to sanies, or partaking of its nature and appearance; thin and serous, with a slight bloody tinge.
- adjective (med.) Discharging sanies.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective of, relating to, or discharging
sanies ;ichorous
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective of or resembling or characterized by ichor or sanies
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Examples
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About the tenth day, the discharge, which up to that time had been only sanious and serous, showed a slight admixture of slimy pus; and this increased till (a few days before I left) it amounted to about three drachms in twenty-four hours.
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About the tenth day, the discharge, which up to that time had been only sanious and serous, showed a slight admixture of slimy pus; and this increased till (a few days before I left) it amounted to about three drachms in twenty-four hours.
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About the tenth day, the discharge, which up to that time had been only sanious and serous, showed a slight admixture of slimy pus; and this increased till (a few days before I left) it amounted to about three drachms in twenty-four hours.
The Harvard Classics Volume 38 Scientific Papers (Physiology, Medicine, Surgery, Geology) Various
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Empima (empyema) is the hawking-up of sanies, with infection of the lung and a sanious habit.
Gilbertus Anglicus Medicine of the Thirteenth Century Henry Ebenezer Handerson
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In from three to six days, the tumefaction around the joint tends to soften at a particular place, and bursts, and a discharge that is sometimes of a sanious character, mixed with synovia, escapes.
Lameness of the Horse Veterinary Practitioners' Series, No. 1 John Victor Lacroix
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I probed it with a silver probe, wherewith I found a large cavity in the middle of the thigh, and others round the knee, sanious and cuniculate: also several scales of bone, some loose, others not.
The Harvard Classics Volume 38 Scientific Papers (Physiology, Medicine, Surgery, Geology) Various
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These pustules break, discharging a thin, sanious fluid, leaving minute ulcers in their places.
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Finally it breaks at one or more spots, and there exudes from the opening or openings a purulent and oftentimes sanious discharge, which coagulates about each fistula after the manner of ordinary synovia.
Diseases of the Horse's Foot Harry Caulton Reeks
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It has a discharge from the eyes, and a fetid, sanious discharge from the nose.
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On the fourth he was cast, and the discharge -- partly inflammatory exudate, and partly a sanious foetid pus -- liberated.
Diseases of the Horse's Foot Harry Caulton Reeks
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