Re: ES>EN sangría blanca, sangría cruenta

[Guest guest]

Schlecht wrote:

> I find " sangría blanca " and " sangría cruenta " in a drug information

> sheet, under a heading for treatments for pulmonary edema (a side effect).

> " White blood " and " bloody blood " in English just don't get any

> appropriate hits!

> I've worked out that " sangría blanca " is a technique of rotating

> tourniquets on the extremities, as a way to decrease venous return,

> and am ready to call this " Rotating Tourniquets " unless someone can

> suggest a better name for the technique.

> I'm at a complete loss for " sangría cruenta " .

> Any suggestions?

>

Well, if sangría blanca is rotating tourniquets, as you've worked out

(and it seems logical that it could be considered a sort of bloodless

bloodletting), then maybe sangría cruenta works out to be the bloody

bloodletting alternative, or phlebotomy. This is a guess, of course.

Sharon

[Guest guest]

Schlecht wrote:

> I find " sangría blanca " and " sangría cruenta " in a drug

> information sheet, under a heading for treatments for pulmonary edema

> (a side effect).

> " White blood " and " bloody blood " in English just don't get any

> appropriate hits!

> I've worked out that " sangría blanca " is a technique of rotating

> tourniquets on the extremities, as a way to decrease venous return,

> and am ready to call this " Rotating Tourniquets " unless someone can

> suggest a better name for the technique.

> I'm at a complete loss for " sangría cruenta " .

> Any suggestions?

>

>

>

> Schlecht, PhD

> Word Alchemy

My Salvat gives " sangría blanca " as " Derivación de los liquidos orgánicos

por medio de purgantes " , but on the Internet I also find explicit references

to it meaning the use of tourniquets in treatment of pulmonary edema, as you

suggest. The " blanca " would lend itself to anything that wasn't bloody, so

I think you have to trust your context..

As for the " cruenta " . I am pretty sure that this is added only to make the

contrast with the 'bloodless bloodletting' clearer -which of course it did

not in this case.

Burns

[Guest guest]

Hello all,

The correct terms I believe are therapeutic phlebotomy for bloodletting

and bloodless phlebotomy for the use of rotating tourniquets.

cheers

Sue