blood-letting
Medieval medical bleeding
Blood-letting is the practice of drawing blood from a patient, once a standard medical treatment believed to cure or prevent illness.
The term now typically describes violence or killing, especially in warfare or conflict: The battle resulted in terrible blood-letting.
It also describes severe cost-cutting or personnel reductions: The company's blood-letting eliminated three hundred jobs.
Also spelled bloodletting.
Extracting blood medically
- leechesBlood-drinking segmented worms
- cuppingSkin suction healing method
- barber-surgeonPre-modern medical practitioner
- humorsAccommodates someone's wishes
Galen · Hippocrates · sanguine · choleric · melancholic · phlegmatic · bile · purge
Opposition between parties
- massacreLarge-scale unlawful killing
- carnageWidespread violent death
- slaughterKilling for meat
- warfareArmed conflict between groups
violence · casualties · brutality · attrition · decimation · battle · hostilities · strife
Hereditary iron storage disease
- polycythemiaElevated red cell count
- donationVoluntary charitable gift
- transfusionTransfer of blood intravenously
- hematologyScience of blood disorders
veins · circulation · plasma · sterile · needle · anticoagulant
Things subtracted from standing
- hemorrhagingExcessive blood loss
- drainChannel for wastewater
- depletionReduction of supply
- layoffsMass job eliminations
cutbacks · downsizing · restructuring · write-offs · sell-off · austerity · cost-cutting · contraction
phlebotomy
Extracting blood medically
- leechesBlood-drinking segmented worms
- cuppingSkin suction healing method
- barber-surgeonPre-modern medical practitioner
humors · Galen · Hippocrates · sanguine · choleric · melancholic · phlegmatic · bile · purge · lancet
conflict
Opposition between parties
warfare · violence · casualties · brutality · attrition · decimation · battle · hostilities · strife · aggression
hemochromatosis
Hereditary iron storage disease
- polycythemiaElevated red cell count
- donationVoluntary charitable gift
- transfusionTransfer of blood intravenously
hematology · veins · circulation · plasma · sterile · needle · anticoagulant
losses
Things subtracted from standing
- hemorrhagingExcessive blood loss
- drainChannel for wastewater
- depletionReduction of supply
layoffs · cutbacks · downsizing · restructuring · write-offs · sell-off · austerity · cost-cutting · contraction · liquidation
blood-lettingblood clotting
Platelets forming solid mass
coagulation · hemostasis · clot formation · staunching · cauterization
blood, letting, bloods, bloody, bloodied, bloodying, bloodless, bloodline, bloodshed