Meaning of exsanguinate | Babel Free

Definitions

1. To drain (a living or dead body, or (medicine, surgery) a body part) of blood.
   transitive
2. To kill (a person or animal) by means of blood loss.
   transitive
3. To bleed profusely; also, to die by means of blood loss.
   intransitive
4. To cause blood to drain from a body or body part, or profuse bleeding.
   intransitive

Equivalents

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?[']”

“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!”

“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!”

“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⟳.”

CEFR level