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phlebotomy

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10 lettersPronunciation /flɪˈbɒtəmi/Part of speech nounSorted behlmooptyStarts with PEnds with Y0 clues
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Definitions

  1. surgical incision into a vein; used to treat hemochromatosis

Word origin

From Old French flebothomie (French phlébotomie), from Late Latin phlebotomia, from Ancient Greek φλεβοτόμος (phlebotómos, “that opens a vein”), from φλέψ (phléps, “vein”). By surface analysis, phlebo- + -tomy.

Used in a sentence

  • Now butter with a leafe of Sage is good to Parge the bloud, Fly Venus and Phlebotomy for they are neither good.
  • 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.
  • 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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