meseraic

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adjective

Mesenteric.

OriginLate Latin meseraicus ← Ancient Greek μεσαραϊκός →
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Meanings

adjectivemeseraic (comparative more meseraic, superlative most meseraic)

comparative more meseraic · superlative most meseraic · alternative meseraick

  1. obsoleteanatomyMesenteric.

    Blood is a hot, sweet, temperate, red humour, prepared in the meseraic veins, and made of the most temperate parts of the chylus in the liver[…].

    1621, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy, New York: New York Review Books, published 2001, →ISBN, page 147
nounmeseraic (plural meseraics)

plural meseraics · alternative meseraick

  1. obsoleteanatomyA mesenteric vein.

    it entreth not the veins with those electuaries, wherein it is mixed: but taketh leave of the permeant parts, at the mouths of the Meseraicks, or Lacteal Vessels, and accompanieth the inconvertible portion unto the siege.

    1646, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, II.5

Origin

  1. Ancient Greekμεσαραϊκός
  2. Late Latinmeseraicus
  3. Englishmeseraic

From Late Latin meseraicus, from Hellenistic Ancient Greek μεσαραϊκός (mesaraïkós) (in Galen), from μεσάραιον (mesáraion, “mesaraeum”).

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APA

meseraic. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/meseraic

MLA

“meseraic.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/meseraic. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “meseraic,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/meseraic.

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