Meaning of BLOODLETTING
| Pronunciation: | | 'blud`leting
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- [n] indiscriminate slaughter
- [n] formerly used as a treatment to reduce excess blood (one of the four humors of medieval medicine)
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| | Synonyms: | | battue, bloodbath, bloodshed |
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| | See Also: | | butchery, carnage, cupping, mass murder, massacre, medical aid, medical care, phlebotomy, slaughter, venesection | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \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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| | Related Terms: | | 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 |
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