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phlebotomist

[ fluh-bot-uh-mist ]

/ fləˈbɒt ə mɪst /

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noun Surgery.

a specialist in phlebotomy.

a nurse or other health worker trained in drawing venous blood for testing or donation.

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Origin of phlebotomist

First recorded in 1650–60; phlebotom(y) + -ist

Dictionary.com Unabridged Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2019

Examples from the Web for phlebotomist

Steele tells of a phlebotomist who advertised, for the good of mankind, to bleed at "threepence per head."
A Book about Doctors|John Cordy Jeaffreson
There was a phlebotomist from Pittsburg who had shot all over the earth.
Pony Tracks|Frederic Remington
A famous French Marchal reproved the clumsiness of a phlebotomist in a less gratifying manner.
A Book about Doctors|John Cordy Jeaffreson
A famous French Marchal reproved the awkwardness of a phlebotomist less agreeably.
Clergymen and Doctors|Anonymous

I constantly act as phlebotomist to the vanity of the young and to the anecdotage of the senile and senescent.
The Journal of a Disappointed Man|Wilhelm Nero Pilate Barbellion

Medicine definitions for phlebotomist

phlebotomist

[ flĭ-bŏt′ə-mĭst ]

n.

One who practices phlebotomy.

One who draws blood for analysis or transfusion.

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