1) Bleeding 2) Bloodbath 3) Cupping 4) Phlebotomy 5) Venesection
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1) Bloodbath 2) Bloodshed or slaughter 3) Exclusively Saxon word 4) Exclusively Anglo word 5) Indiscriminate slaughter 6) Medical aid 7) Medical care 8) Medical test 9) Phlebotomy 10) Traditional medicine 11) Word of purely Anglo origin 12) Word with Anglo-Saxon origins
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act of reducing the amount of blood in the body accomplished either by opening a vein or by the application of leeches. Thought to restore health from ancient times through the nineteenth century.
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Bloodletting (or blood-letting) is the withdrawal of blood from a patient to cure or prevent illness and disease. Bloodletting was based on an ancient system of medicine in which blood and other bodily fluid were regarded as `humors` that had to remain in proper balance to maintain health. It is claimed to have been the most common medical pract.....
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• (n.) 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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(from the article `leeching`) ...referred to as a `leech.` Toward the beginning of the 19th century, a `leech mania` swept through Europe and America, as leeching became ... ...(1826–53), Hall conducted physiological research that gained him renown on the European continent and derision from established medical ...
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Blood'let`ting noun (Medicine) 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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Type: Term Pronunciation: blŭd′let-ing Definitions: 1. Removing blood, usually from a vein; formerly used as a general remedial measure, but used now in congestive heart failure and polycythemia. See: phlebotomy
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n] - formerly used as a treatment to reduce excess blood (one of the four humors of medieval medicine)
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noun formerly used as a treatment to reduce excess blood (one of the four humors of medieval medicine)
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the act or practice of letting blood by opening a vein; phlebotomy. · bloodshed or slaughter. · bloodbath. · severe cutbacks or reduction in personnel, appropriations, etc.: The company went through a period of bloodletting in the 1970s.
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