exsanguination

From exsanguinate +‎ -ion.

• Rhymes: -eɪʃən

exsanguination (countable and uncountable, plural exsanguinations)

1. Bloodletting.
2. Hemorrhage.
3. Slaughter of an animal by cutting its throat and allowing it to bleed out, especially for the production of halal and kosher meat.
4. The process of draining the blood of an animal.
   • 2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: A Natural History, page 219:

     Solutrean points resemble the canines of the sabre-toothed cats. Indeed, they may have killed in a similar way - by exsanguination.

5. (pathology) Excessive loss of blood due to hemorrhage.

• IPA^(key): /ɛk.sɑ̃.ɡi.na.sjɔ̃/

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exsanguination f (plural exsanguinations)

1. exsanguination

• “exsanguination”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.