exsanguinate
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
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.
Base: sanguis
Affixes: ex-
-ātus
Inflected forms:
form: exsanguinates
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: exsanguinating
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: exsanguinated
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: exsanguinated
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To drain (a living or dead body, or (medicine, surgery) a body part) of blood.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: 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?[']
gloss: To kill (a person or animal) by means of blood loss.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: And I do have to admit that once the episode revealed that the girls killed their dads because of a chromosomal predisposition, I made a note to have my daughter tested for that "exsanguinate your father" gene!
gloss: To bleed profusely; also, to die by means of blood loss.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: Universal precautions may not always be instituted in emergencies, as the nurse may find herself with no time to put on a pair of gloves or put on a gown and mask. A few examples of emergency cases are: patients that start to exsanguinate, vomiting blood in a projectile manner all over the room, […]
He won't tolerate not doing a resection. Now let's get this stomach out and get out of here before he exsanguinates on the table!
gloss: To cause blood to drain from a body or body part, or profuse bleeding.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: A mild galvanic current stimulates functional activity, promotes absorption; a stronger current contracts and exsanguinates.
If sterile blood [from a rat] is required an alternative method is to exsanguinate under terminal anaesthesia by withdrawing blood from the heart with a sterile syringe and needle.
Ulcerative colitis is highly variable in its clinical manifestations. […] [B]leeding may be profuse, virtually exsanguinating and continuous, responding only to total colectomy, and the diarrhea may be voluminous, watery and lead rapidly to volume depletion and shock.
Related words: desanguinate
desanguination
desanguinator
exsangueous
exsanguious
exsanguine
exsanguineous
sanguinary
sanguine
sanguinely
sanguineness
sanguineous
Derived words: exsanguinated
exsanguination
exsanguinator
Translations:
lang: Belarusian
word: абяскро́ўліваць
roman: abjaskrówlivacʹ
lang: Belarusian
word: абяскро́віць
roman: abjaskróvicʹ
lang: Finnish
word: vuodattaa kuiviin
lang: French
word: exsanguiner
lang: Russian
word: обескро́вливать
roman: obeskróvlivatʹ
lang: Russian
word: обескро́вить
roman: obeskróvitʹ
lang: Swedish
word: exsangvinera
lang: Ukrainian
word: знекро́влювати
roman: znekróvljuvaty
lang: Ukrainian
word: знекро́вити
roman: znekróvyty