Bloodletting (disambiguation)

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Bloodletting is a formerly common medical procedure now generally abandoned.

Bloodletting may also refer to :

Arts, entertainment and media

Film and television

Literature

Music

Other uses

  • Bloodletting in Mesoamerica, ritualized self-cutting or piercing of an individual's body that served a number of ideological and cultural functions within ancient Mesoamerican societies
  • Bait and bleed, military strategy
  • Dhabihah, method to slaughter animals according to Islamic law by bloodletting
  • Exsanguination, blood loss, to a degree sufficient to cause death in either animals or humans
  • Kashrut (kosher), method to slaughter animals according to Judaic law by bloodletting