Definisi 'bloodletting'

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noun
1 formerly used as a treatment to reduce excess blood (one of the four humors of medieval medicine) Terjemahkan
source: wordnet30
2 indiscriminate slaughter Terjemahkan
Example:
a bloodbath took place when the leaders of the plot surrendered
ten days after the bloodletting Hitler gave the action its name
the valley is no stranger to bloodshed and murder
a huge prison battue was ordered
source: wordnet30
3 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. Terjemahkan
source: webster1913
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medical specialty, medicine, dark ages, middle ages, butchery, carnage, mass murder, massacre, slaughter, phlebotomy, venesection, cupping,

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