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extravenate

extravenate adjective: that has been let out of the veins.

Adjective

extravenate (not comparable)

  1. (obsolete) That has been let out of the veins.
    • the wound is affected in like manner as is the extravenate blood by the Sympathetick medicine1665, Joseph Glanvill, Scepsis Scientifica: Or, Confest Ignorance, the Way to Science
    • The profusion of blood was great; although he penetrated the pleura, nothing came forth, except that which was extravenate, although great care was used.1953, Edgar Ashworth Underwood, Charles Joseph Singer, Science, Medicine, and History, volume 1, page 393

Verb

extravenate (third-person singular simple present extravenates, present participle extravenating, simple past and past participle extravenated)

  1. Synonym of extravasate.
    • And finally, that having obtained this plenary satisfaction, of the sympathy maintained betwixt the blood extravenated, and that yet conserved in the veins ....1650, Walter Charleton, transl., A Ternary of Paradoxes: The Magnetick Cure of Wounds, 2nd edition, translation of original by Jean Baptiste van Helmont
    • For he holds, that there is a certain virulent anodyne Quality in extravenated Blood, or in some such Matter, which makes the Kidney forget its Office of separating the forum and so sends it back to the Belly.1686, Johann Doläus, Systema Medicinale, a Compleat System of Physick, Theorical and Practical, page 472
    Synonyms:
    extravasate

Synonyms of extravenate

Forms of extravenate

third-person singular presentextravenates
present participleextravenating
past participleextravenated
pastextravenated

Origin of extravenate

From extra- + Latin vena (“vein”).

Questions about extravenate

What does extravenate mean?
Extravenate means that has been let out of the veins.
What part of speech is extravenate?
Extravenate can be an adjective or a verb.

Words near extravenate in the dictionary

  1. extravation
  2. extravazation
  3. extravehicular
  4. extravehicular activities
  5. extravehicular activity
  6. extravenate
  7. extravenated
  8. extravenates
  9. extravenating
  10. extravenation
  11. extraventricular

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