About The Medical Condition Bloodletting

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Bloodletting

Bloodletting Medical Condition Defined & Explained
Bloodletting Medical Condition

What's The Definition Of The Medical Condition Bloodletting?

Puncture of a vein to draw blood for therapeutic purposes. Bloodletting therapy has been used in Talmudic and Indian medicine since the medieval time, and was still practiced widely in the 18th and 19th centuries. Its modern counterpart is PHLEBOTOMY.

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