Definition of "exsanguination" [exsanguination]

• Bloodletting (noun)
• Slaughter of an animal by cutting its throat and allowing it to bleed out, especially for the production of halal and kosher meat. (noun)
• Excessive loss of blood due to hemorrhage. (noun)

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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."
• "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.”"
• "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 …."