Lacking blood; bloodless; deprived of blood.
From Latin ex- (out, without) + sanguine (blood, from sanguis). Medical and archaic term describing absence of blood, used primarily in historical medical texts.
Latin 'sanguis' (blood) is the root of sanguine (optimistic—supposedly because of hot blood), sanguinary (bloody), and this rare exanguin—showing how one Latin root generates multiple English words with different shades of meaning about blood and temperament.
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