Skip to content
Vinony

phlebotomy

noun

  1. medical procedure involving an incision in a vein
L325407 on Wikidata ↗

Wiktionary

Pronunciation: /flɪˈbɒtəmi/ / /fləˈbɒtəmi/

noun

Etymology: 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.

  1. The opening of a vein, either to withdraw blood or for letting blood; venesection.

    “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.”