phlebotomy
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- IPA: /flɪˈbɒtəmi/
phlebotomy
- 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 […].
- French: phlébotomie
- Italian: flebotomia
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