The doctor recommended frequent bloodletting.
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Bloodletting
Synonyms for "bloodletting" (53 found)
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46 translations across 26 languages.
Arabic
1 entries- فَصْد noun (ancient medical practice)
Catalan
1 entries- sagnia noun (ancient medical practice)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 放血 noun (ancient medical practice)
Czech
1 entries- pouštění žilou noun (ancient medical practice)
Danish
3 entries- blodsudgydelse noun (large amount of blood likely to be spilled through violence — see also bloodshed)
- åreladning noun (ancient medical practice)
- åreladning noun (large amount of blood likely to be spilled through violence — see also bloodshed)
Dutch
1 entries- aderlating noun (ancient medical practice)
Esperanto
1 entries- sangeltiro noun (ancient medical practice)
Finnish
2 entries- suoneniskentä noun (ancient medical practice)
- verenvuodatus noun (large amount of blood likely to be spilled through violence — see also bloodshed)
French
2 entries- effusion de sang noun (large amount of blood likely to be spilled through violence — see also bloodshed)
- saignée noun (ancient medical practice)
Galician
1 entries- sangría noun (ancient medical practice)
German
3 entries- Aderlass noun (ancient medical practice)
- Blutvergießen noun (large amount of blood likely to be spilled through violence — see also bloodshed)
- Schröpfen noun (ancient medical practice)
Greek
2 entries- αιματοχυσία noun (large amount of blood likely to be spilled through violence — see also bloodshed)
- αφαίμαξη noun (ancient medical practice)
Hungarian
1 entries- vérontás noun (large amount of blood likely to be spilled through violence — see also bloodshed)
Irish
4 entries- cuisleoireacht noun (ancient medical practice)
- foladóireacht noun (ancient medical practice)
- ligean fola noun (ancient medical practice)
- ródach noun (ancient medical practice)
Italian
1 entries- salasso noun (ancient medical practice)
Japanese
1 entries- 瀉血 noun (ancient medical practice)
Korean
1 entries- 사혈 noun (ancient medical practice)
Latin
1 entries- missio sanguinis noun (ancient medical practice)
Polish
3 entries- przelew krwi noun (large amount of blood likely to be spilled through violence — see also bloodshed)
- rozlew krwi noun (large amount of blood likely to be spilled through violence — see also bloodshed)
- upust krwi noun (ancient medical practice)
Portuguese
1 entries- sangria noun (ancient medical practice)
Russian
2 entries- кровопроли́тие noun (large amount of blood likely to be spilled through violence — see also bloodshed)
- кровопуска́ние noun (ancient medical practice)
Spanish
2 entries- carnicería noun (large amount of blood likely to be spilled through violence — see also bloodshed)
- sangría noun (ancient medical practice)
Swedish
2 entries- blodsutgjutelse noun (large amount of blood likely to be spilled through violence — see also bloodshed)
- åderlåtning noun (ancient medical practice)
Tagalog
3 entries- padugo noun (ancient medical practice)
- pagtatabad noun (ancient medical practice)
- tabad noun (ancient medical practice)
Ukrainian
3 entries- кровопроли́ття́ noun (large amount of blood likely to be spilled through violence — see also bloodshed)
- кровопуска́ння noun (ancient medical practice)
- кровопуска́ння noun (large amount of blood likely to be spilled through violence — see also bloodshed)
Welsh
1 entries- gwaedu noun (ancient medical practice)
Sample sentences
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The pungent pain, dyspnœa, cephalalgia, redness of the face, pulsations of the heart, strong and rapid, the pulse full and vibrating, induced M. Peyrade, then attached to that hospital, to practise blood-letting in the arm. It was followed with marked relief.
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Yet another round of corporate bloodletting.
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Only when the bankers and industrialists abroad realized that a ferocious class struggle in Germany was raging did they begin to relent somewhat on their economic bloodletting.
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