sanguinolent

comparative more sanguinolent · superlative most sanguinolent

1. Containing or tinged with blood.

   On making a larger opening there issued three or four pints of a very sanguinolent fluid.

   1829 July, M. Portal, “Pleuritis Hæmorraghica — Operation for Empyema — Death — Dissection”, in The Medico-Chirurgical Review

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   When the desire to urinate manifests itself chiefly at night, with burning pains when urinating, or emission, drop by drop, of sanguinolent urine.

   1862, George Heinrich Gottlieb Jahr, Hull's Jahr: A New Manual of Homœopathic Practice, William Radde, page 537

   He still walked about London with his dreams, but as months succeeded months and he left the year behind him they were dreams not so much of success as of revenge. Success seemed a colourless name for the reward of his patience; something fiercely florid, something sanguinolent was more to the point.

   1892, Henry James, Nona Vincent

   They are caused by an accumulation of blood or sanguinolent liquid inside the dental follicles, they may occur in the deciduous as well as permanent dentition.

   2010, Tatjana Dostálová, Michaela Seydlová, editors, Dentistry and Oral Diseases, Grade Publishing, →ISBN, page 163

   Synonyms: bloody