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[Furious Fish]

At least it doesn't seem to. Very commonly I see creatures getting whole limbs lopped off and they never seem to bleed to death - the only wounds that seem to cause lethal blood loss are internal organ damage and the throat getting torn out. In my current fortress I had an elven merchant get his entire right leg and left arm cut off (ie. upper limbs not lower) and he just lay there on the floor next to my trade depot for almost a year before he went melancholy and starved to death.
Bug or feature?

[Foul_Jester]

I've had this same sort of thing happen.  I think it's somewhat of a feature: if it didn't happen, we would never end up with those colorful characters that are all the more interesting for their lack of various bits.
It's a shame we can't have hooks, eye patches, peg-legs, and etc.

[numerobis]

In adventure mode, it certainly causes blood loss, but the bleeding usually stops before the critter dies.  In fortress mode, I've had a dwarf bleed out after getting his left arm cut off at the shoulder.

[Deon]

If you mod an artery for each upper part of limb and make it circulation, you'll bleed to death due the lose of the limb.
But it will make xbows/bows/spears even more insta-killers than they are now.

[Keldor]

This is actually realistic.  When your body loss a limb, it closes off the arteries that would go there.  This is also why a severe enough wound makes it necessary for the limb in question to be amputated.