Synonyms

phlebotomize

American

[fluh-bot-uh-mahyz] / fləˈbɒt əˌmaɪz /

especially British, phlebotomise

verb (used with object)

phlebotomized, phlebotomizing

to subject to phlebotomy; bleed.

phlebotomize British

/ flɪˈbɒtəˌmaɪz /

verb

(tr) surgery to perform phlebotomy on (a patient)

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Other Word Forms

phlebotomization noun

Etymology

Origin of phlebotomize

First recorded in 1590–1600, phlebotomize is from the Middle French word phlebotomiser (compare Medieval Latin flebotomizāre ). See phlebotomy, -ize

Example Sentences

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A physician, while in his patient’s room, in speaking to the surgeon about him, said, “You must phlebotomize the old gentleman to-morrow.”

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And by the way, let me beg you not to call a trotting match a race, and not to speak of a "thorough-bred" as a "blooded" horse, unless he has been recently phlebotomized.

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I remember his ordering a wholesale bleeding of his patients, right and left, whatever might be the matter with them, one morning when a phlebotomizing fit was on him.

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