exsanguinate

verb

1. (transitive)To drain (a living or dead body, or (medicine, surgery) a body part) of blood.

   “The substance of the brain was not congested but, on the contrary, exsanguinated.”

   “At the battle of Ball's Bluff, I saw a soldier having a shot flesh-wound of the left arm, who was much weakened and exsanguinated from a venous hemorrhage that was caused by applying an improvised tourniquet above the wound (it was done by a comrade), and was readily stopped on removing the cause.”

   “Dr. [J. Leonard] Corning first exsanguinates the part to be anæsthetized with an Esmarch bandage. He next applies a tourniquet above the bandage and the latter is removed.”

   “A careful dissection, however, after exsanguinating the limb, suffices to prevent serious mischief, and even in the cases where the attending vein has been injured, necessitating its ligature or extirpation (eleven cases), no gangrene followed.”

   “[O]ne of the inherent problems in the old rotating drum-type kidney was that you could rather easily exsanguinate the patient into the^([sic – meaning a?]) sausage casing in a matter of a few minutes unless you were Johnny on the spot, watching until the blood got back into the patient. I think an inherent design advantage would be one in which the machine could not contain an excess of blood and you couldn't physically exsanguinate the patient.”

2. (transitive)To kill (a person or animal) by means of blood loss.

   “And I do have to admit that once the episode revealed that the girls killed their dads because of a chromosomal predisposition, I made a note to have my daughter tested for that "exsanguinate your father" gene!”

3. (intransitive)To bleed profusely; also, to die by means of blood loss.

   “Universal precautions may not always be instituted in emergencies, as the nurse may find herself with no time to put on a pair of gloves or put on a gown and mask. A few examples of emergency cases are: patients that start to exsanguinate, vomiting blood in a projectile manner all over the room, […]”

   “He won't tolerate not doing a resection. Now let's get this stomach out and get out of here before he exsanguinates on the table!”

4. (intransitive)To cause blood to drain from a body or body part, or profuse bleeding.

   “A mild galvanic current stimulates functional activity, promotes absorption; a stronger current contracts and exsanguinates.”

   “If sterile blood [from a rat] is required an alternative method is to exsanguinate under terminal anaesthesia by withdrawing blood from the heart with a sterile syringe and needle.”

   “Ulcerative colitis is highly variable in its clinical manifestations. […] [B]leeding may be profuse, virtually exsanguinating and continuous, responding only to total colectomy, and the diarrhea may be voluminous, watery and lead rapidly to volume depletion and shock.”