sanguification
/ˌsæŋɡwɪfɪˈkeɪʃən/
noun
- The process of forming blood or converting other substances into blood in the body.
- Some early physicians believed that food turned into blood through sanguification.
- The ancient theory of sanguification has been replaced by modern hematology.
- In medieval medicine, sanguification was thought to happen in the liver.
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