Bloodletting in a sentence as a noun

There's been a huge bloodletting -- across the board -- over the last 13 years.

After a brief period of show trials and bloodletting.

We might not have had another massive world war in the last 69 years but there's been plenty of bloodletting and human savagery.

And yet, after modern medicine took over, researchers found there are cases when bloodletting is the appropriate treatment.

When doctors mostly had tools like bloodletting available to them, and didn't know to wash their tools before doing surgery, it was almost always better to do nothing.

Despite that stickiness, there is a daily bloodletting of Yahoo Stores defecting to the new, nimbler and customer-centric enablers such as Shopify.

With their UK clients they saw a lot of flagging over a year ago so adjusted their practices and moved on, this hasn't happened much in NZ yet. He predicts a massive amount of bloodletting here in NZ as google are only just starting to pay attention and flag sites for doing dodgy link building and, apparently, that's what most local SEO's here do.

Now you claim that I have no idea what I'm talking about, and I claim the same about you, but mark my words in 100 years people will look back on the diet of today with the same horror that they look back on bloodletting as medical practice.

Divergent's screening process involved bloodletting to choose a career path, then an aggressive testing process where those who fail were cast outside polite society with zero chance of ever pursuing any other options.

"We performed a randomized controlled trial in 1,000 patients with hemochromatosis to determine whether iron chelation was non-inferior to bloodletting for the treatment of hemochromatosis.

Bloodletting definitions

noun

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

noun

indiscriminate slaughter; "a bloodbath took place when the leaders of the plot surrendered"; "ten days after the bloodletting Hitler gave the action its name"; "the valley is no stranger to bloodshed and murder"; "a huge prison battue was ordered"

See also: bloodbath bloodshed battue