See Also: phlebotomy(medicine)
Phlebotomy(health)
phlebotomy(dictionary)
bloodless phlebotomy(medicine)

phlebotomy (iou)



phlebotomy noun. LME.
[Old French flebothomi (mod. phlebotomie) from late Latin phlebotomia from Greek, from phlebotomos that opens a vein, formed as PHLEBO-: see -TOMY.]
The action or practice of cutting open a vein so as to withdraw blood or (Hist.) let blood flow, as a therapeutic operation; venesection; an instance of this. LME.
transf. & fig. Bloodshed; slaughter; extortion of money. L16.
phlebotomist noun a person trained to take blood from a patient for examination or transfusion; Hist. a person who bled patients: M17.
phlebotomi'zation noun the action of phlebotomizing L16.
phlebotomize verb (a) verb intrans. & trans. perform phlebotomy (on); (b) verb intrans. undergo phlebotomy: L16.