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bloodletting

blood·let·ting

US/ˈblʌˌdlɛtɪŋ/ rare

noun

1.

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

2.

Origin

From blood + letting, equal to bloodlet + -ing.

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