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Bloodletting

nounverified·updated May 18, 2026

formerly used as a treatment to reduce excess blood (one of the four humors of medieval medicine)

polysemous

Classifications

Entity Type

Unknownauthoritativeglossary_import_default_pending_classifier
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Sensitivity

unclassified

Information Class

unclassified

Variants

synonym
bloodshed
plural
Bloodlettings
possessive
Bloodletting's
pluralpossessive
Bloodlettings'