English-Finnish translations for bloodletting

• suoneniskentä
• verenvuodatus
  Paikan päällä olevien tietolähteiden mukaan verenvuodatus Haitissa siis jatkuu. So it is, according to informants on the ground, that the bloodletting in Haiti continues.

Definition of bloodletting

• The archaic practice of treating illness by removing some blood, believed to be tainted, from the stricken person
• The diminishment of any resource with the hope that this will lead to a positive effect

Related words

• bloodless
• bloodlessness
• bloodlessly
• bloodletter
• bloodleaf