Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Loss of blood; bloodlessness.
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- noun
Bloodletting - noun
Slaughter of ananimal bycutting itsthroat and allowing it tobleed out , especially for theproduction ofhalal andkosher meat . - noun pathology Excessive loss of
blood due tohemorrhage .
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Examples
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In humans, exsanguination is a mode rather than a cause of death, and can be dramatically external, or entirely internal, depending on what brought about the bleeding in the first place.
The Book is Dead ... 2008
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In humans, exsanguination is a mode rather than a cause of death, and can be dramatically external, or entirely internal, depending on what brought about the bleeding in the first place.
March 2008 2008
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The famous pediatrician L. E. Holt writes that in the first four days of life, babies are extremely susceptible to hemorrhaging: “Hemorrhages at this time… are sometimes extensive; they may produce serious damage of internal organs, especially of the brain, and cause death from shock or exsanguination.”
Modern Science in the Bible Ben Hobrink 2011
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We can add it to the Official Glossary of Procedural Terms containing all the words crime and medical shows have taught us: exsanguination, defenestration, contusion, hematoma, mass spectrometer, stippling, Sarcoidosis ….
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The famous pediatrician L. E. Holt writes that in the first four days of life, babies are extremely susceptible to hemorrhaging: “Hemorrhages at this time… are sometimes extensive; they may produce serious damage of internal organs, especially of the brain, and cause death from shock or exsanguination.”
Modern Science in the Bible Ben Hobrink 2011
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The famous pediatrician L. E. Holt writes that in the first four days of life, babies are extremely susceptible to hemorrhaging: “Hemorrhages at this time… are sometimes extensive; they may produce serious damage of internal organs, especially of the brain, and cause death from shock or exsanguination.”
Modern Science in the Bible Ben Hobrink 2011
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The famous pediatrician L. E. Holt writes that in the first four days of life, babies are extremely susceptible to hemorrhaging: “Hemorrhages at this time… are sometimes extensive; they may produce serious damage of internal organs, especially of the brain, and cause death from shock or exsanguination.”
Modern Science in the Bible Ben Hobrink 2011
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How about "human-induced life-culminating event" or "facilitated involuntary exsanguination", or, for those with a more metaphysical bent: "sudden soul transference transaction"?
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Bradford's McGill is a smart man, but well capable of violence, and the show doesn't shy away from depicting violence or the consequences of it -- there are no bloodless gunshot wounds in this one; rapid exsanguination seems mote the case.
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The story was especially touching, considering that each victim had achieved a lifelong dream of winning a cheese-off trophy and ribbon, yet before they could fully savor their winnings, each had lost her life by unexplained exsanguination.
Blood Lite II: Overbite Kevin J. Anderson 2010
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