ichorous

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The intestinal contents in such cases were not colorless, but consisted of a sanguinolent, ichorous, putrid fluid.

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  • I may have exaggerated un petit peu, but Rod Marquand is on the far side of ichorous, and I should know. —  F ;SF - vol 088 issue 03 - March 1995
  • "You are like a black, ichorous boil on the sporting world that should be lanced with rusty nails." —  Home - BostonHerald.com
  • In older pus cells the outline is irregular, the protoplasm coarsely granular, and the nuclei disintegrated, no longer taking the stain Variations from Typical Pus._--Pus from old-standing sinuses is often watery in consistence (ichorous), with few cells. —  Manual of Surgery Volume First: General Surgery. Sixth Edition.
  • In the severest cases death ensues, at latest, within two or three days, the cause being purulent and ichorous (or pus-laden) peritonitis Such extreme developments as these, however, are infrequent, since the illness, by timely attention according to the methods herein prescribed, will, as a rule, respond to the treatment and take a favourable turn Respiratory Organs In the course of typhus, intense bleeding of the nose is not infrequent. —  Valere Aude Dare to Be Healthy, Or, The Light of Physical Regeneration
  • The intestinal contents in such cases were not colorless, but consisted of a sanguinolent, ichorous, putrid fluid. —  Scientific American Supplement, No. 458, October 11, 1884
 

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