meseraic
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English
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Late Latin meseraicus, from Hellenistic Ancient Greek μεσαραϊκός (mesaraïkós) (in Galen), from μεσάραιον (mesáraion, “mesaraeum”).
Adjective
[edit]meseraic (comparative more meseraic, superlative most meseraic)
- (anatomy, obsolete) Mesenteric.
- 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC:, Bk.I, New York 2001, pp.147-8:
- 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 […].
Noun
[edit]meseraic (plural meseraics)
- (anatomy, obsolete) A mesenteric vein.
- 1646, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, II.5:
- 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.