sanies

[ sey-nee-eez ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

, Pathology.

a thin, often greenish, serous fluid that is discharged from ulcers, wounds, etc.

sanies

/ ˈseɪnɪˌiːz /

pathol a thin greenish foul-smelling discharge from a wound, ulcer, etc, containing pus and blood

Origin of sanies¹

First recorded in 1555–65, sanies is from the Latin word saniēs

Origin of sanies¹

C16: from Latin, of obscure origin

Empima (empyema) is the hawking-up of sanies, with infection of the lung and a sanious habit.

In three or four days, an oozing sanies appears under the animal and soaks the sand to some distance.

They want something different: a wounded, a dying grub; a corpse dissolving into sanies.

I expected to see them putrefying, running into sanies, like corpses left to rot in the open air.

Can the worm, constantly floundering in the sanies of a carcass, be itself in danger of inoculation by that whereon it grows fat?

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