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Webster 1913 Edition
Phlebotomy
Phle-bot′o-my
,Noun.
[L.
phlebotomia
, Gr. φλεβοτομία
; φλέψ
, φλεβός
, a vein + τέμνειν
to cut: cf. F. phlébotomie
. Cf. Fleam
.] (Med.)
The act or practice of opening a vein for letting blood, in the treatment of disease; venesection; bloodletting.
Webster 1828 Edition
Phlebotomy
PHLEBOT'OMY
,Noun.
Definition 2024
phlebotomy
phlebotomy
English
Noun
phlebotomy (plural phlebotomies)
- The opening of a vein, either to withdraw blood or for letting blood; venesection.
- 1621, Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy, II.5.1.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 […].
- 1621, Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy, II.5.1.ii:
Translations
the opening of a vein, either to withdraw blood or for letting blood; venesection
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External links
- phlebotomy in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
- phlebotomy in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
- phlebotomy at OneLook Dictionary Search