Home › Words › E › extravenateextravenateextravenate means that has been let out of the veins.EtymologyFrom extra- + Latin vena (“vein”).adjThat has been let out of the veins.e.g.“the wound is affected in like manner as is the extravenate blood by the Sympathetick medicine” — 1665, Joseph Glanvill, Scepsis Scientifica: Or, Confest Ignorance, the Way to Science:verbSynonym of extravasate.e.g.“And finally, that having obtained this plenary satisfaction, of the sympathy maintained betwixt the blood extravenated, and that yet conserved in the veins ....” — 1650, Walter Charleton, transl., A Ternary of Paradoxes: The Magnetick Cure of Wounds, 2nd edition, translation of original by Jean Baptiste van Helmont:Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).