OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 43009

bloodletting

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sangría
The archaic practice of treating illness by removing some blood, believed to be tainted, from the stricken person.
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 hosp…
carnicería
A circumstance, such as a battle, where a large amount of blood is likely to be spilled through violence.
In 1856 Tu Wen-hsiu rose up in rebellion and occupied Ta-li.[...]"The conflict between the Han Chinese and the Moslems began over trifles. It has developed into a tragedy of mutual…
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