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Webster 1913 Edition


Depletion

De-ple′tion

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Noun.
[Cf. F.
déplétion
.]
1.
The act of depleting or emptying.
2.
(Med.)
the act or process of diminishing the quantity of fluid in the vessels by bloodletting or otherwise; also excessive evacuation, as in severe diarrhea.

Webster 1828 Edition


Depletion

DEPLETION

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Noun.
[L. To fill.] The act of emptying; particularly, in the medical art, the act of diminishing the quantity of blood in the vessels by venesection; bloodletting.

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depletion

depletion

See also: déplétion

English

Noun

depletion (plural depletions)

  1. the act of depleting, or the state of being depleted; exhaustion
  2. the consumption of a resource faster than it can be replenished

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