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Noun Concept
Categories: Medical tests, Pages with missing ISBNs, Bleeding, Pseudoscience, Blood
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bloodletting  bleeding  blood-letting  blood letting  Blood letting machine
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Formerly used as a treatment to reduce excess blood (one of the four humors of medieval medicine) WordNet 3.0
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Formerly used as a treatment to reduce excess blood (one of the four humors of medieval medicine) WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet
Bloodletting is the withdrawal of blood from a patient to prevent or cure illness and disease. Wikipedia
A practice once believed to cure diseases Wikipedia Disambiguation
Using leeches Wikipedia Disambiguation
Formerly common medical procedure now generally abandoned. Wikipedia Disambiguation
Therapy to open an artery to draw blood Wikidata
The archaic practice of treating illness by removing some blood, believed to be tainted, from the stricken person. Wiktionary
IS A
medical care
therapy
venesection
HAS KIND
cupping
venesection
leeching
CATEGORY DOMAIN
Middle Ages
medicine
DESCRIBED BY SOURCE
Otto's encyclopedia
DIFFERENT FROM
bleeding
bloodshed
WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet
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bloodletting
Wikipedia
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bloodletting
Wikidata
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bloodletting
Wiktionary
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bloodletting
Wikipedia Redirections
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blood-letting, blood letting, Blood letting machine, Bloodstick, Flebotomy, scarificator
Wikidata Alias
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bleeding, blood letting

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