Phys. and Med. [L. cruor blood (when out of the body), gore.] Coagulated blood, or that portion of the blood which forms the clot; gore.
1656. Blount, Glossogr., Cruor, blood dropping out of a wound.
1705. Greenhill, Art of Embalming, 3 (T.). Any offensive odour or contaminating cruor.
1843. J. Wilkinson, Swedenborg’s Anim. Kingd., I. ix. 266. The chyle clogged with cruor.
