EXSANGUINATION Definition & Meaning

exsanguination

[ eks-sang-gwuh-ney-shuhn ]

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noun

the act or process of draining or losing blood:
With an extreme mite infestation, up to 6% of a bird’s blood can be drained daily, causing it to become anemic or even die by exsanguination.
the act or process of bleeding to death:
The consequences can range from minor blood loss to exsanguination.

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�y��vlog History and Origins

Origin of exsanguination¹

First recorded in 1820–30; exsanguinat(e) ( def ) + -ion ( def )

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In other words, something about life in the city appeared to rescue the finch babies from exsanguination by fly.

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"One of those was a healthy male bull, about 5 years old. Enormous. To have been taken down by exsanguination by ticks, you can imagine that was tens of thousands of ticks on one animal," said Pesapane, who also has a faculty appointment in Ohio State's School of Environment and Natural Resources.

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The event produced 320,000 Olympic-size swimming pools’ worth of lava in just three months — and the speedy exsanguination of the volcano’s shallow magma reservoir caused its summit to collapse dramatically.

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Her attacker inflicted so many wounds — many of them 5 inches deep — that Kupfer died from exsanguination, according to the autopsy.

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In a media release obtained by the Indiana Star, Dubois County Coroner Katie Schuck said Dawn R. Jankovic, 47, of Brunswick, Ohio, died from exsanguination – severe blood loss -- avulsion of the right internal thoracic artery and the effects of the roller coaster itself at the Holiday World & Splashin' Safari in Santa Claus, Ind.

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