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blood-letting

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blood-letting [ˈblʌdˌlɛtɪŋ]
n
1. (Medicine) the therapeutic removal of blood, as in relieving congestive heart failure See also phlebotomy
2. bloodshed, esp in a blood feud
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blood-letting [ˈblʌdˌlɛtɪŋ] n (fig) → spargimento di sangue (Med) → salasso
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I cannot, however, leave this country without giving an account of their manner of blood-letting, which I was led to the knowledge of by a violent fever, which threatened to put an end to my life and travels together.
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He recovered, rallied, relapsed again, having undergone such a process of blood-letting and calomel as showed the strength of his original constitution.
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