Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A thin, fetid, greenish fluid consisting of serum and pus discharged from a wound, ulcer, or fistula.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A thin greenish or reddish discharge from wounds or sores, less thick and white than laudable pus.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Med.) A thin, serous fluid commonly discharged from ulcers or foul wounds.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun medicine a thin mixture of
pus andblood serum discharged from awound ;ichor
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- noun a fluid product of inflammation
Etymologies
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Examples
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The whole hand was a mass of yellow pus, streaked with sanies, large ulcers were burrowing into the fore-arm, while in the arm-pit was a big abscess.
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I found him in a high fever, his eyes deep sunken, with a moribund and yellowish face, his tongue dry and parched, and the whole body much wasted and lean, the voice low as of a man very near death: and I found his thigh much inflamed, suppurating, and ulcerated, discharging a greenish and very offensive sanies.
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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Hence persons laboring under pneumonia or pleurisy are not necessarily empyemics, but when these diseases progress to such a point that blood and sanies are expectorated and the lung is infected, that is when the ulceration of the lungs fails to heal and corruption and infection occur, the disease becomes empima, and is with difficulty, or never cured.
Gilbertus Anglicus Medicine of the Thirteenth Century Henry Ebenezer Handerson
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The following days, I made injections, into the depth and cavities of the ulcers, of Aegyptiacum dissolved sometimes in eau-de-vie, other times in wine, I applied compresses to the bottom of the sinuous tracks, to cleanse and dry the soft spongy flesh, and hollow leaden tents, that the sanies might always have
The Harvard Classics Volume 38 Scientific Papers (Physiology, Medicine, Surgery, Geology) Various
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I applied compresses to the bottom of the sinuous tracks, to cleanse and dry the soft spongy flesh, and hollow leaden tents, that the sanies might always have a way out; and above them a large plaster of Diacalcitheos dissolved in wine.
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I found him in a high fever, his eyes deep sunken, with a moribund and yellowish face, his tongue dry and parched, and the whole body much wasted and lean, the voice low as of a man very near death: and I found his thigh much inflamed, suppurating, and ulcerated, discharging a greenish and very offensive sanies.
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The whole hand was a mass of yellow pus, streaked with sanies, large ulcers were burrowing into the fore-arm, while in the arm-pit was a big abscess.
Travels in West Africa Mary H. Kingsley 1881
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Can the worm, constantly floundering in the sanies of a carcass, be itself in danger of inoculation by that whereon it grows fat?
The Life of the fly; with which are interspersed some chapters of autobiography Jean-Henri Fabre 1869
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In three or four days, an oozing sanies appears under the animal and soaks the sand to some distance.
The Life of the fly; with which are interspersed some chapters of autobiography Jean-Henri Fabre 1869
weiss commented on the word sanies
...this is a gross one...
December 28, 2006
ruzuzu commented on the word sanies
Here's a fun one from the examples: “The following days, I made injections, into the depth and cavities of the ulcers, of Aegyptiacum dissolved sometimes in eau-de-vie, other times in wine, I applied compresses to the bottom of the sinuous tracks, to cleanse and dry the soft spongy flesh, and hollow leaden tents, that the sanies might always have.”
--The Harvard Classics Volume 38 Scientific Papers (Physiology, Medicine, Surgery, Geology)
September 1, 2011