A grandiloquence that sways uneasily between rodomontade and mere verbiage, a rotundity of diction, a choice of subjects which can only be described as sanguinolent, the use of the bludgeon where others would prefer a rapier. From Wordnik.com. [G. K. Chesterton, A Critical Study] Reference
Dysentery is a flux of the bowels with a sanguinolent discharge and excoriation of the intestines. From Wordnik.com. [Gilbertus Anglicus Medicine of the Thirteenth Century] Reference
The intestinal contents in such cases were not colorless, but consisted of a sanguinolent, ichorous, putrid fluid. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 458, October 11, 1884] Reference
Diarrhoea is a simple flux of the bowels, without either the sanguinolent discharges or the intestinal excoriation. From Wordnik.com. [Gilbertus Anglicus Medicine of the Thirteenth Century] Reference
Passing to speak of the microscopical character of the contents of the bowel, Dr. Koch said that owing to the sanguinolent and putrescent character of these in the cases first examined, no conclusion was arrived at for some time. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 458, October 11, 1884] Reference
Now this is actually so: in some the auricle presents itself as a sanguinolent vesicle, as a thin membrane containing blood, as in fishes, in which the sac that stands in lieu of the auricles is of such delicacy and ample capacity that it seems to be suspended or to float above the heart. From Wordnik.com. [The Harvard Classics Volume 38 Scientific Papers (Physiology, Medicine, Surgery, Geology)] Reference
But I will remain steadfast to my philosophy, and if I am condemned to the said sanguinolent couch, I will do my best to derive from it the utmost enjoyment possible. From Wordnik.com. [The Rough Road] Reference
Softening ensues, and the diseased area breaks down at one or more points, from which there oozes a discharge of a sero-purulent, purulent, or sanguinolent character. From Wordnik.com. [Essentials of Diseases of the Skin Including the Syphilodermata Arranged in the Form of Questions and Answers Prepared Especially for Students of Medicine] Reference
In the meantime the respiration becomes frequent and often difficult, and the temperature rises three or four degrees above the normal; but soon convulsions, affecting chiefly the muscles of the back and loins, usher in the final collapse of which the progress is marked by the loss of all power of moving the trunk or extremities, diminution of temperature, mucous and sanguinolent alvine evacuations, and similar discharges from the mouth and nose. '. From Wordnik.com. [Fragments of science, V. 1-2] Reference
Yet the sanguinolent stain would extant be ". From Wordnik.com. [Montaigne and Shakspere] Reference
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