MEANING
Bloody, blood-containing, or bloodlike in color or character.
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- sanguineous fluid
- sanguineous drainage
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A sanguineous fluid stained the dressing.
The note described sanguineous drainage from the wound.
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- sanguineous
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Primary category: horror. Forms: Normally non-gradable as a composition description. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.
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