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meseraic

meseraic adjective: mesenteric.

Adjective

meseraic (comparative more meseraic, superlative most meseraic)

  1. (obsolete) Mesenteric.
    • Blood is a hot, sweet, temperate, red humour, prepared in the meseraic veins, and made of the most temperate parts of the chylus in the liver […]., Bk.I, New York 2001, pp.147-8

Noun

meseraic (plural meseraics)

  1. (obsolete) A mesenteric vein.
    • it entreth not the veins with those electuaries, wherein it is mixed: but taketh leave of the permeant parts, at the mouths of the Meseraicks, or Lacteal Vessels, and accompanieth the inconvertible portion unto the siege.1646, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, II.5

Forms of meseraic

Adjective
comparativemore meseraic
superlativemost meseraic
alternative formmeseraick
Noun
pluralmeseraics

Origin of meseraic

From Late Latin meseraicus, from Hellenistic Ancient Greek μεσαραϊκός (mesaraïkós) (in Galen), from μεσάραιον (mesáraion, “mesaraeum”).

Questions about meseraic

What does meseraic mean?
Meseraic means mesenteric.
What part of speech is meseraic?
Meseraic can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near meseraic in the dictionary

  1. mesentry
  2. mesepimeron
  3. mesepimerons
  4. mesepisterna
  5. mesepisternum
  6. meseraic
  7. meseraick
  8. meseraicks
  9. meseraics
  10. Meserve
  11. Meserves

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