'Bloodletting' definitions:
Definition of 'bloodletting'
(from WordNet)
noun
Formerly used as a treatment to reduce excess blood (one of the four humors of medieval medicine)
noun
Definition of 'Bloodletting'
From: GCIDE
- Bloodletting \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. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'bloodletting'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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