- a variation of venisection.
venesection
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of venesection
1655–65; < New Latin or Medieval Latin vēnae sectiō cutting of a vein; see vein, section
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"In about a space of five months, I had venesection seven or eight times. So you can imagine my iron levels hit the floor and I felt even more exhausted," she said.
From BBC ● Sep. 6, 2026
These measures did no good but surely did less harm than venesection or a swig of mercury.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 18, 2010
Since the first experiment no venesection became necessary, and the returns of the violent headache were invariably relieved by the same means.
From Curiosities of Medical Experience by J. G. (John Gideon) Millingen
Venesection and Its Suggestiveness.—Between the periods of antimony and calomel popularity venesection was the favorite remedy of physicians.
From Psychotherapy by James J. (James Joseph) Walsh
How beneficent has venesection seemed, though it is now frankly confessed that it has but a narrow usefulness for a very circumscribed set of ills!
From Psychotherapy by James J. (James Joseph) Walsh
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