Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To perform phlebotomy on.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To let blood from; bleed by opening a vein. Also spelled
phlebotomise .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb rare To let blood from by opening a vein; to bleed.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb transitive To perform a
phlebotomy on (avein ): to open (a vein) to withdraw or let blood. - verb transitive To perform a phlebotomy on (a person): to open a vein of (a person) to withdraw or let blood.
- verb intransitive To perform a phlebotomy; to open a vein to withdraw or let blood.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb draw blood
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Examples
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Then have we a civil war to phlebotomize us every year, and to prevent our population from starving for want of food — and for the same purpose we have the Plague proposing us a visit, the best of all recipes for thinning a land, and converting younger brothers into elder ones.
The Abbot 2008
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She calmly put on her gloves she had brought her own, and proceeded to behead, disembowel, and phlebotomize this poor fish.
It takes a village tannaz 2006
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She calmly put on her gloves she had brought her own, and proceeded to behead, disembowel, and phlebotomize this poor fish.
Archive 2006-09-01 tannaz 2006
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But so it was, that King Piko, at peace with King Hello, and well content with, the tranquillity of the times, little relished the idea of picking a quarrel with his neighbor, and running its risks, in order to phlebotomize his redundant population.
Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. II (of 2) Herman Melville 1855
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"Now," said the doctor, "for the lancet;" and he accordingly fell to work, with all the delicate caution of a butcher, to phlebotomize his patient.
Eoneguski, or, the Cherokee Chief: A Tale of Past Wars. Vol. I. 1839
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If that isn’t an option, then she could pop across the border, and any number of physicians in the US would be willing to phlebotomize her for a price.
Best seller list April 1-Sep 30, 2008 | The Blog of Michael R. Eades, M.D. 2008
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