Sanguinolent

Pronunciation

• IPA: /sæŋˈɡwɪnÉ™lÉ™nt/
• Hyphenation: san + guin + o + lent

Origin

From Latin sanguinolentus ("of blood").

Full definition of sanguinolent

Adjective

1. Containing or tinged with blood.
• 1829, M. Portal, "Pleuritis Hæmorraghica — Operation for Empyema — Death — Dissection", The Medico-Chirurgical Review, July 1829:On making a larger opening there issued three or four pints of a very sanguinolent fluid.
• 1862, George Heinrich Gottlieb Jahr, Hull's Jahr: A New Manual of HomÅ“opathic Practice, William Radde (1862), page 537:When the desire to urinate manifests itself chiefly at night, with burning pains when urinating, or emission, drop by drop, of sanguinolent urine.
• 2010, Dentistry and Oral Diseases (eds. Tatjana Dostálová & Michaela Seydlová), Grade Publishing (2010), ISBN 9788024730059, page 163: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.

Synonyms

• bloody