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adj. - Of or resembling or characterized by a thin, fetid, greenish fluid consisting of serum and pus discharged from a wound, ulcer, or fistula.

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  • It has a discharge from the eyes, and a fetid, sanious discharge from the nose.
  • Empima (empyema) is the hawking-up of sanies, with infection of the lung and a sanious habit.
  • These pustules break, discharging a thin, sanious fluid, leaving minute ulcers in their places.
  • When ulceration exists it is dark, fetid or bloody, or sanious and purulent, sometimes it is acrid, excoriating the parts.
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