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DeCS
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Descriptor English:
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Bloodletting
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Descriptor Spanish:
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Venodisección
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Descriptor Portuguese:
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Sangria
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Tree Number:
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E02.800.558.500
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Definition English:
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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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Indexing Annotation English:
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restrict to hist articles or hist contexts: modern counterpart is PHLEBOTOMY
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See Related English:
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Phlebotomy
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Allowable Qualifiers English:
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Record Number:
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23958
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Unique Identifier:
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D001815
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Occurrence in VHL:
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Similar:
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DeCS
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