The Collaborative International Dictionary
Phlebotomize \Phle*bot"o*mize\, v. t. [imp. & p. p.
Phlebotomized; p. pr. & vb. n. Phlebotomizing.] [Cf. F.
phl['e]botomiser.]
To let blood from by opening a vein; to bleed. [R.]
--Howell.
Wiktionary
vb. 1 (context transitive English) To perform a phlebotomy on (a vein): to open (a vein) to withdraw or let blood. 2 (context transitive English) To perform a phlebotomy on (a person): to open a vein of (a person) to withdraw or let blood. 3 (context intransitive English) To perform a phlebotomy; to open a vein to withdraw or let blood.
WordNet
v. draw blood; "In the old days, doctors routinely bled patients as part of the treatment" [syn: bleed, leech, phlebotomise]
Usage examples of "phlebotomize".
I once saw the noted French surgeon, Lisfranc, in a fine phlebotomizing frenzy, order some ten or fifteen patients, taken almost indiscriminately, to be bled in a single morning.
I remember his ordering a wholesale bleeding of his patients, right and left, whatever might be the matter with them, one morning when a phlebotomizing fit was on him.
Then to-morrow morning, six — phlebotomists themselves phlebotomized secundum artem.