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Bloodletting

Bloodletting Meaning & Definition
Bloodletting Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Bloodletting?

[n] indiscriminate slaughter
[n] formerly used as a treatment to reduce excess blood (one of the four humors of medieval medicine)

Synonyms | Synonyms for Bloodletting: battue | bloodbath | bloodshed

Related Terms | Find terms related to Bloodletting: aspiration | bane | bleeding | blood | bloodshed | braining | broaching | cupping | dealing death | destruction | destruction of life | dispatch | drafting | drainage | draining | drawing | emptying | euthanasia | execution | extermination | flow of blood | gore | immolation | kill | killing | lapidation | leeching | martyrdom | martyrization | mercy killing | milking | phlebotomy | pipetting | poisoning | pumping | ritual killing | ritual murder | sacrifice | shooting | siphoning | slaughter | slaying | stoning | sucking | suction | taking of life | tapping | venesection

See Also | butchery | carnage | cupping | mass murder | massacre | medical aid | medical care | phlebotomy | slaughter | venesection

Bloodletting In Webster's Dictionary

\Blood"let`ting\, n. (Med.) The act or process of letting blood or bleeding, as by opening a vein or artery, or by cupping or leeches; -- esp. applied to venesection.

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