phlebotomy

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

• IPA^(key): /flɪˈbɒtəmi/

phlebotomy (countable and uncountable, plural phlebotomies)

1. The opening of a vein, either to withdraw blood or for letting blood; venesection.
   • 1621, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy, Oxford: Printed by Iohn Lichfield and Iames Short, for Henry Cripps, OCLC 216894069; The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd corrected and augmented edition, Oxford: Printed by John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, 1624, 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 […].

• venesection
• venipuncture

• phlebotomist

• phlebotomy on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• phlebotomy in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• phlebotomy in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
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