serosanguine

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English

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Etymology

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From sero- +‎ sanguine.

Adjective

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serosanguine (not comparable)

  1. (medicine) Serosanguinous.
    • 1833, R. J. Bertin, translated by Charles W. Chauncy, Treatise on the Diseases of the Heart, and Great Vessels, Philadelphia: Carey, Lea & Blnachard, page 181:
      The left lung is quite crepitant; the right is distended with a sero-sanguine fluid; the mucous membrane of the bronchiæ is red.