phlebotome

[ fleb-uh-tohm ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

The phlebotome is by far the best preserved and best authenticated example which we possess of this instrument.

The identity in shape of the abscess knife and the phlebotome holds good to-day.

There is, however, an instrument of bronze of phlebotome shape in the Naples Museum.

A consideration of all the various operations to which the phlebotome was put bears this out.

The passage quoted from Hippocrates shows that the ordinary phlebotome was not guarded in this way.

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