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单词 eventation
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eventationn.

Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French eventation.
Etymology: < Middle French eventation (French †éventation ) venesection (c1530 in the passage translated in quot. ?1543; late 14th cent. in senses ‘evaporation’ and ‘aeration’) < eventer event v.1 + -ation -ation suffix. Compare slightly later event v.1 Compare also earlier eventing n.1Compare post-classical Latin eventatio ventilation, respiration (6th cent.; from 13th cent. in British sources).
Obsolete.
The action or process of causing (supposed) noxious vapours to escape from the blood, esp. by opening a vein; the action of opening a vein to extract a small quantity of blood.
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bloodleaseeOE
bloodlettingOE
lettingOE
minutionc1386
vein bloodc1405
bleedingc1440
blooding1525
eventation?1543
?1543 T. Phaer tr. N. de Houssemaine Treat. Pestilence ii. iv. f. xxxvi in tr. J. Goeurot Regiment of Lyfe In suche cases a lytle euentation [Fr. euentation] of the enfected bloode, maye be the sauynge of theyr lyues.
1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Eventation, a venting; also, the opening of a veine.
1636 E. Edwards Anal. Chyrurg. 40 Eventation, when humours boyle and bubble in the veins by evil quality, and done by little at once to vent the vapours.
1665 M. Nedham Medela Medicinæ 388 It [sc. purgation by specificks] drains the ill humours, without diminishing the Crimson Balsam and Vital Spirit, which departs and vanisheth (more or less) upon every Section of Veins and Eventation of the Bloud (as some do call it).
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2018).
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