venesection
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of venesection
1655–65; < New Latin or Medieval Latin vēnae sectiō cutting of a vein; vein, section
Example Sentences
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Regular venesections - collecting blood for diagnosis - mean their iron counts are going down.
From BBC
The British physicians had tried venesection, the medical term for bloodletting, and it had not worked—perhaps, they thought, because they tried it too late in the course of the disease.
From Scientific American
The only treatment for this is venesection, where I have a pint of blood removed every few months.
From BBC
The act or process of letting blood or bleeding, as by opening a vein or artery, or by cupping or leeches; Ð esp. applied to venesection.
From Project Gutenberg
Thus, at one time quinia in very large doses was believed to possess it, at another venesection, and at another cold baths.
From Project Gutenberg
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