bloodletting

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

46 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Arabic: فَصْد (faṣd) — ancient medical practice
• Catalan: sagnia — ancient medical practice
• Chinese Mandarin: 放血 (fàngxuè) — ancient medical practice
• Czech: pouštění žilou — ancient medical practice
• Danish: åreladning — ancient medical practice
• Dutch: aderlating — ancient medical practice
• Esperanto: sangeltiro — ancient medical practice
• Finnish: suoneniskentä — ancient medical practice
• French: saignée — ancient medical practice
• Galician: sangría — ancient medical practice
• German: Aderlass — ancient medical practice
• German: Schröpfen — ancient medical practice
• Greek: αφαίμαξη (afaímaxi) — ancient medical practice
• Irish: cuisleoireacht — ancient medical practice
• Irish: foladóireacht — ancient medical practice
• Irish: ródach — ancient medical practice
• Irish: ligean fola — ancient medical practice
• Irish: tarraingt fola — ancient medical practice
• Italian: salasso — ancient medical practice
• Japanese: 瀉血 (shaketsu) — ancient medical practice
• Korean: 사혈 (sahyeol) — ancient medical practice
• Latin: missio sanguinis — ancient medical practice
• Polish: upust krwi — ancient medical practice
• Portuguese: sangria — ancient medical practice
• Russian: кровопуска́ние (krovopuskánije) — ancient medical practice
• Spanish: sangría — ancient medical practice
• Swedish: åderlåtning — ancient medical practice
• Tagalog: tabad — ancient medical practice
• Tagalog: pagtatabad — ancient medical practice
• Tagalog: padugo — ancient medical practice
• Ukrainian: кровопуска́ння (krovopuskánnja) — ancient medical practice
• Welsh: gwaedu — ancient medical practice
• Danish: blodsudgydelse — large amount of blood likely to be spilled through violence — see also bloodshed
• Danish: åreladning — large amount of blood likely to be spilled through violence — see also bloodshed
• Finnish: verenvuodatus — large amount of blood likely to be spilled through violence — see also bloodshed
• French: effusion de sang — large amount of blood likely to be spilled through violence — see also bloodshed
• German: Blutvergießen — large amount of blood likely to be spilled through violence — see also bloodshed
• Greek: αιματοχυσία (aimatochysía) — large amount of blood likely to be spilled through violence — see also bloodshed
• Hungarian: vérontás — large amount of blood likely to be spilled through violence — see also bloodshed
• Polish: rozlew krwi — large amount of blood likely to be spilled through violence — see also bloodshed
• Polish: przelew krwi — large amount of blood likely to be spilled through violence — see also bloodshed
• Russian: кровопроли́тие (krovoprolítije) — large amount of blood likely to be spilled through violence — see also bloodshed
• Spanish: carnicería — large amount of blood likely to be spilled through violence — see also bloodshed
• Swedish: blodsutgjutelse — large amount of blood likely to be spilled through violence — see also bloodshed
• Ukrainian: кровопроли́ття́ (krovoprolýttjá) — large amount of blood likely to be spilled through violence — see also bloodshed
• Ukrainian: кровопуска́ння (krovopuskánnja) — large amount of blood likely to be spilled through violence — see also bloodshed