Definitions
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
- n. Bloodletting
- n. Slaughter of an animal by cutting its throat and allowing it to bleed out, especially for the production of halal and kosher meat.
- n. Excessive loss of blood due to hemorrhage.
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. Loss of blood; bloodlessness.
Etymologies
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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.
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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.”
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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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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.
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The dark pool around Danby's head suggested a general exsanguination thereafter.
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When I die, I want to die from exsanguination due to my cock being eaten by a snagglepussy.
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I'd be looking to get a 2nd medical opinion if any of the gunshots were not immediately fatal - but victims died much later from shock or exsanguination.
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#23@Trav: If the 2009 offense is anemic, the 2009 pitching staff suffers from exsanguination.
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