phlebotomy
Pronunciation
  • IPA: /flɪˈbɒtəmi/
Noun

phlebotomy

  1. The opening of a vein, either to withdraw blood or for letting blood; venesection.
    • 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Printed by John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, OCLC 54573970 ↗, partition II, section 5, member 1, subsection ii:
      Phlebotomy is promiscuously used before and after physick, commonly before and upon occasion is often reiterated, if there be any need at least of it.
    • 1819, Walter Scott, Ivanhoe:
      He had even taken from his pocket a cupping apparatus, and was about to proceed to phlebotomy, when the object of his anxious solicitude suddenly revived […].
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