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Margaret of Valois(encyclopedia)
Valois (as used in expressions)(encyclopedia)
Valois Restaurant(tourism)
de Valois, Dame Ninette(encyclopedia)

phlebotomy (iou) and Valois (sh)


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.

Valois (sh)




Medieval county and duchy, northern France.

It corresponds to the southeastern quarter of the modern departement of Oise, with an adjacent portion of Aisne. It was under the Merovingian kings (งใ 500-751) and their successors, the Carolingians, until it became a hereditary countship. In 1214 King Philip II Augustus annexed it to the royal domain. The duchy's last representative, Henry III, was succeeded in 1589 by the house of Bourbon. In 1790 it was abolished in the redivision of France into departements.