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Noun bloodletting has 2 senses
  1. bloodletting - formerly used as a treatment to reduce excess blood (one of the four humors of medieval medicine)
    --1 is a kind of     medical care, medical aid
    --1 has particulars: venesection, phlebotomy; cupping
  2. bloodbath, bloodletting, bloodshed, battue - indiscriminate slaughter
    --2 is a kind of slaughter, massacre, mass murder, carnage, butchery
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