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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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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.
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n. 1 The archaic practice of treating illness by removing some blood, believed to be tainted, from the stricken person. 2 By extension, the diminishment of any resource with the hope that this will lead to a positive effect. 3 A circumstance such as a battle where a large amount of blood is likely to be spilled through violence.
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right|framed|Ancient Greek painting on a vase, showing a physician (iatros) bleeding a patient 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 fluids were regarded as " humors" that had to remain in proper balance to maintain health. It is claimed to have been the most common medical practice performed by surgeons from antiquity until the late 19th century, a span of almost 2,000 years. In Europe the practice continued to be relatively common until the end of the 18th century. The practice has now been abandoned by modern style medicine for all except a few very specific conditions. It is conceivable that historically, in the absence of other treatments for hypertension, bloodletting could sometimes have had a beneficial effect in temporarily reducing blood pressure by reducing blood volume. However, since hypertension is very often asymptomatic and thus undiagnosable without modern methods, this effect was unintentional. In the overwhelming majority of cases, the historical use of bloodletting was harmful to patients.
Today, the term phlebotomy refers to the drawing of blood for laboratory analysis or blood transfusion. Therapeutic phlebotomy refers to the drawing of a unit of blood in specific cases like hemochromatosis, polycythemia vera, porphyria cutanea tarda, etc., to reduce the number of red blood cells. The traditional medical practice of bloodletting is today considered to be a pseudoscience.
Bloodletting is the third studio album by American alternative rock band Concrete Blonde. It was released on May 15, 1990. It marks a shift for the band towards gothic rock.
Bloodletting is the eleventh studio album by American thrash metal band Overkill, released on October 24, 2000 by Metal-Is. It is the first after the departure of guitarists Joe Comeau and Sebastian Marino and the addition of Dave Linsk. The album sold around 2,450 copies in its first week of release in the U.S.
Bloodletting may refer to the following:
- Bloodletting, formerly common medical procedure now generally abandoned
- Bloodletting in Mesoamerica, ritualized self-cutting or piercing of an individual's body that served a number of ideological and cultural functions within ancient Mesoamerican societies
- Bloodletting (Concrete Blonde album), album by Concrete Blonde
- Bloodletting (Overkill album), album by Overkill
- Bloodletting (Boxer album), an album by the rock band Boxer in 1976
- "Bloodletting" (The Walking Dead), an episode of the television series The Walking Dead
- Bloodletting Press, small publishing house focused on horror fiction
- Bloodletting & Miraculous Cures, short story collection by Vincent Lam
- Bait and bleed, military strategy
- Dhabihah, method to slaughter animals according to Islamic law by bloodletting
- Exsanguination, blood loss, to a degree sufficient to cause death in either animals or humans
- Kashrut, (kosher) method to slaughter animals according to Judaic law by bloodletting
- Bloodletting, a 1997 horror film
- Bloodletting (2016 film), a 2016 horror film
Bloodletting was an album by the rock band Boxer, released on the Virgin record label in 1979. Their third album in order of release, it had in fact been recorded in 1976 after their debut Below the Belt. It was also a posthumous release for band leader Mike Patto, who had died of lymphatic leukemia in March 1979, and for bass player Keith Ellis, who had died December 1978. Patto was credited as writer of all the album's original songs. Also featured were cover versions of " Hey Bulldog" by Lennon and McCartney, Leonard Cohen's "Teachers", "Dinah Low" by Terry Stamp and Jim Avery (who also wrote "Town Drunk" on Boxer's debut album, Below The Belt) and "The Loner" by Neil Young. The cover artwork was by Tony Wright.
Bloodletting was released on CD in 2000 by EMI.
"Bloodletting" is the second episode of the second season of the post-apocalyptic horror television series The Walking Dead. It initially aired on AMC in the United States on October 23, 2011. The episode was written by Glen Mazzara and directed by Ernest Dickerson. In this episode, Rick Grimes ( Andrew Lincoln) and Shane Walsh ( Jon Bernthal) rush to save the life of Rick's son, Carl ( Chandler Riggs), and discover a possible haven in the process.
Production commenced in Newnan, Georgia at Newnan High School in early July 2011, after attaining approval from the city council and the Coweta County School System. The episode featured guest appearances from Scott Wilson, Lauren Cohan, Emily Kinney and Pruitt Taylor Vince, amongst several other recurring actors and actresses for the series. "Bloodletting" was well received by television critics, who praised the character development in the episode. Upon airing, it gained 6.70 million viewers and garnered a 3.6 rating in the 18–49 demographic, according to Nielsen ratings.
Usage examples of "bloodletting".
When, in the aftermath of the yellow fever epidemics of 1793 and 1797, Rush had been publicly attacked for his bloodletting treatment, both by Philadelphia physicians and the press, and his practice dwindled to the point that he could barely survive, Adams, who was then President and struggling with troubles of his own, had appointed him treasurer of the United States Mint.
The Aedile had dismissed all of these allegations as fantasies, but then a boy had died after bloodletting, and the parents, mid-caste chandlers, had lodged a formal protest.
If some major battlefield bloodletting did take place, then no mediation could proceed as the popular demand for vengeance rose, but in time neutral Kentucky, as the only state that could treat with both powers evenhandedly, might provide the bridge to bring the parties together.
Rawlins leaped three times backward with his shoulders hunched and his arms outflung like a man refereeing his own bloodletting.
British Army has prevented periodic outbursts of bloodletting and will again.
Flynn kept his camera rocketing back and forth, getting as much coverage of the bloodletting as he could.
He led them away from the crowd, past another wooden pole, bleached by the elements and sculpted by human hands and driven into the ground at the very center of the clearing, the axle upon which prisoners of war were once tied and sacrificed in an hours-long ritual of systematic bloodletting because without blood, the visible flow of life nutrients, the things of this world would vanish out of time.
For the benefit of observers, of whom there are many, he kneels a moment, appearing to repeat his sacred Oath, before rising to put on, very carefully, piece by razor-keen piece, his bloodletting suit, till all at last is ready.
Tristan looked back down to see that Failee had completed the bloodletting of the four other sorceresses and was now performing the same ritual on herself.
He comes a from a long line of bloodletting lords, who ruled with the sword-blade and despised any show of compassion, dismissing it as frailty.
I had ordered post-horses to continue our journey, and Daturi of his own authority sent them back and went for a doctor, who pronounced me to be in danger of an apoplectic fit and ordered a copious bloodletting, which restored my calm.
Those black moods usually ended by escalating into a towering rage and plans for bloodlettings that were bigger and more spectacular than any that had gone before.
Among the German farmers of Lancaster, for example, are scores, perhaps hundreds, of truly, literally Good People, escap'd from a Hell we in our small tended Quotidian may but try to imagine, entire Villages put to Flame, and Tortures worse than Inquisitorial, disembowelments, bloodlettings, a world without Innocence, yet, escap'd here, into Innocence reborn, something deeper and more intricate, they call it "a new Life in Christ," it is their way of explaining it.
The boys in my junior high school went through a siege of drawing machines like that: hot rods and racing cars, tanks, torture devices, guns, knives, and bloodlettings of all kinds.
In the view of the majority, the calm that has descended upon our Continent must be ascribed partly to the general prostration following the bloodlettings of the terrible wars, but far more to the fact that the Occident has ceased to be the focal point of world history and the arena in which claims to hegemony are fought out.