Crossword clues for phlebotomy
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Phlebotomy \Phle*bot"o*my\, n. [L. phlebotomia, Gr. ?; ?, ?, a vein + ? to cut: cf. F. phl['e]botomie. Cf. Fleam.] (Med.) The act or practice of opening a vein for letting blood, in the treatment of disease; venesection; bloodletting.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"bloodletting," c.1400, flebotomye, from Old French flebotomie (13c., Modern French phlébotomie), from medical Latin phlebotomia, from Greek phlebotomia "blood-letting," from phlebotomos "opening veins," from phleps (genitive phlebos) "vein" + -tomia "cutting of," from tome "a cutting" (see tome).
Wiktionary
n. The opening of a vein, either to withdraw blood or for letting blood; venesection.
WordNet
n. surgical incision into a vein; used to treat hemochromatosis [syn: venesection]
Wikipedia
Phlebotomy (from the Greek words phlebo-, meaning "pertaining to a blood vessel", and -tomy, meaning "to make an incision") is the process of making an incision in a vein with a needle. The procedure itself is known as a venipuncture. A person who performs phlebotomy is called a "phlebotomist", although doctors, nurses, medical laboratory scientists and others do portions of phlebotomy procedures in many countries.
Usage examples of "phlebotomy".
She also left me to sit and wait while she rounded up the phlebotomy supplies and a jacket and bag similar to what home health nurses were equipped with, as well as a disposable cell phone.
But he was so little aware of it that his acceptance was couched in terms of scornful insult and garnished with assertions of the phlebotomy he would perform upon his rash challenger if his profession did not preclude a meeting with unbuttoned foils.
Yes, Madame Lefrancois, every month--a good phlebotomy, in the interests of the police and morals.
When use and when abstain from vice, Figs, grapes, phlebotomy, and spice.
In Europe phlebotomy only continued to a late period, but the original superstition out of which it arose, in this case as in many others, was forgotten.
When I have administered the physic, I shall perform a phlebotomy on the upper leg.
Never having thought to perform a phlebotomy on a bird, I had no idea what quantity to let out before staunching the flow.
I have not yet been required to perform any large operations, but there is, by those who study insanity, a great faith put in phlebotomy, and this we undertake daily.
After relieving Josef of the burden of his innocence the previous night, in a procedure that required less time than it now took her to brew a pot of coffee, Trudi had pulled on her cherry-pink kimono and gone out to the parlor to study a text on phlebotomy, leaving Josef to the warmth of her goose-down counterpane, the lilac smell of her nape and cheek lingering on the cool pillow, the perfumed darkness of her bedroom, the shame of his contentment.
In ascites he recommends that when other means fail an opening should be made three finger-breadths below the navel with a pointed phlebotomy knife, and a portion of the fluid allowed to evacuate itself.
January, as he lifted the half-dead Italian, waxen with phlebotomy, to sponge him clean.
Steve Josephson, who inserted the large phlebotomy needle into a vein with a dexterity belied by his thick fingers.