phlebotomist

[ fluh-bot-uh-mist ]

noun

, Surgery.

1. a specialist in phlebotomy.
2. a nurse or other health worker trained in drawing venous blood for testing or donation.

Word History and Origins

Origin of phlebotomist¹

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

Example Sentences

While he was once a phlebotomist, his health certifications have long since expired.

From Time

A famous French Marchal reproved the awkwardness of a phlebotomist less agreeably.

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Steele tells of a phlebotomist who advertised, for the good of mankind, to bleed at "threepence per head."

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A famous French Marchal reproved the clumsiness of a phlebotomist in a less gratifying manner.

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An eminent phlebotomist, not very many years since, made a thousand per annum by the lancet.

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There was a phlebotomist from Pittsburg who had shot all over the earth.

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