cruor

[ kroo-awr ]

noun

1. coagulated blood, or the portion of the blood that forms the clot.

cruor

/ ˈkrʊɔː /

noun

1. med a blood clot

Word History and Origins

Origin of cruor¹

1650–60; < Latin: blood (that flows from a wound), gore; akin to crude

Example Sentences

Resonant aures, Stillatque niger naris aduc� Cruor; at venas rumpit hiantes.

From Project Gutenberg

Sanguis erant lacrymæ; quacumque foramina novit Humor, ab his largus manat cruor: ora redundant, Et patulæ nares; sudor rubet; omnia plenis Membra fluunt venis: totum est pro vulnere corpus.

From Project Gutenberg

Cruor, krōō′or, n. coagulated blood.—n.

From Project Gutenberg

Sanguis is the condition of physical life; cruor, the symbol of death by slaughter.

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It appears also from Ovid's account that there was much drunkenness and obscene language; this was, in fact, a festa very different in character from those of the Numan calendar; and that there was a magical element in the cult of the deity seems proved by the mysterious allusion to "virgineus cruor" in connection with her grove not far from this scene of revelry, in Martial iv.

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