extravenate

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English

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Etymology

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From extra- + Latin vena (vein).

Adjective

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extravenate (not comparable)

  1. (obsolete) That has been let out of the veins.
    • 1665, Joseph Glanvill, Scepsis Scientifica: Or, Confest Ignorance, the Way to Science:
      the wound is affected in like manner as is the extravenate blood by the Sympathetick medicine
    • 1953, Edgar Ashworth Underwood, Charles Joseph Singer, Science, Medicine, and History, volume 1, page 393:
      The profusion of blood was great; although he penetrated the pleura, nothing came forth, except that which was extravenate, although great care was used.
    • 1961 [1616], William Harvey, translated by C.D. O'Malley, F.N.L. Poynter, and K.F. Russell, Lectures on the Whole of Anatomy, translation of Prelectiones Anatomiae Universalis (in New Latin):
      There is no other organ of contained blood [so] filled to capacity, wherefore Aristotle, contrary to the physicians [states that] the origin of the blood is in the heart, not in the liver, because there is no extravenate blood in the liver.
    • 2014 June, Dagmar Provijn, “Bloody analogical reasoning”, in Logic, Reasoning, and Rationality:
      There is no other organ of contained blood [so] filled to capacity, wherefore Aristotle, contrary to the physicians, [states that] the origin of the blood is in the heart, not in the liver, because there is no extravenate blood in the liver.

Verb

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

  1. Synonym of extravasate
    • 1650, Walter Charleton, transl., A Ternary of Paradoxes: The Magnetick Cure of Wounds, 2nd edition, translation of original by Jean Baptiste van Helmont:
      And finally, that having obtained this plenary satisfaction, of the sympathy maintained betwixt the blood extravenated, and that yet conserved in the veins ....
    • 1686, Johann Doläus, Systema Medicinale, a Compleat System of Physick, Theorical and Practical, page 472:
      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.
    • 1811, “The Philadelphia Repertory”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name), volumes 1-2:
      I vainly essayed to command the distorted muscles of my countenance, finding it so fictitiously incrassated with dubious uncertainty, and abounding with cosmetic gushes of extravenated humour.
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