phlebotomize
Americanverb (used with object)
verb
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Etymology
Origin of phlebotomize
First recorded in 1590–1600, phlebotomize is from the Middle French word phlebotomiser (compare Medieval Latin flebotomizāre ). See phlebotomy, -ize
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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.”
From Talkers With Illustrations by John Bate
To-morrow, we phlebotomize again; Next day, my new-invented patent draught; Then, I have some pills prepared; On Thursday, we throw in the bark; on Friday— Balth.
From McGuffey's Sixth Eclectic Reader by William Holmes McGuffey
Dr. Henry Power twice bled Thomas Cowell of York County in 1680, and Patrick Napier twice phlebotomized 'Allen Jarves, deceased, in the cure of a cancer of his mouth.'
From Medicine in Virginia, 1607-1699 by Thomas Proctor Hughes
Then to-morrow morning, six ——— phlebotomists themselves phlebotomized secundum artem.
From Scaramouche by Rafael Sabatini
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.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 01, No. 02, December, 1857 by Various
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.
From Medical Essays, 1842-1882 by Oliver Wendell Holmes
An anecdote recurs to me of old Youssef, Bashaw of Tripoli, illustrative of the phlebotomizing system now under consideration.
From Travels in Morocco, Volume 1. by James Richardson
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