exsanguination
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From exsanguinate + -ion.
Pronunciation[edit]
- Rhymes: -eɪʃən
Noun[edit]
exsanguination (countable and uncountable, plural exsanguinations)
- Bloodletting.
- Hemorrhage.
- Slaughter of an animal by cutting its throat and allowing it to bleed out, especially for the production of halal and kosher meat.
- The process of draining the blood of an animal.
- 2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: A Natural History, page 219:
- Solutrean points resemble the canines of the sabre-toothed cats. Indeed, they may have killed in a similar way - by exsanguination.
- (pathology) Excessive loss of blood due to hemorrhage.
Translations[edit]
excessive loss of blood due to hemorrhage
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French[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
exsanguination f (plural exsanguinations)
Further reading[edit]
- “exsanguination”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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