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phlebotomize - definition and meaning
Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
transitive verb
from The Century Dictionary.
phlebotomise .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
transitive verb rare To let blood from by opening a vein; to bleed.
from Wiktionary , Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
verb transitive To perform a phlebotomy on (a vein ): to open (a vein) to withdraw or let blood.verb transitive To perform a phlebotomy on (a person): to open a vein of (a person) to withdraw or let blood.verb intransitive To perform a phlebotomy; to open a vein to withdraw or let blood.
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Then have we a civil war to phlebotomize us every year, and to prevent our population from starving for want of food — and for the same purpose we have the Plague proposing us a visit, the best of all recipes for thinning a land, and converting younger brothers into elder ones.
The Abbot 2008
She calmly put on her gloves she had brought her own, and proceeded to behead, disembowel, and phlebotomize this poor fish.
It takes a village tannaz 2006
She calmly put on her gloves she had brought her own, and proceeded to behead, disembowel, and phlebotomize this poor fish.
Archive 2006-09-01 tannaz 2006
But so it was, that King Piko, at peace with King Hello, and well content with, the tranquillity of the times, little relished the idea of picking a quarrel with his neighbor, and running its risks, in order to phlebotomize his redundant population.
Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. II (of 2) Herman Melville 1855
"Now," said the doctor, "for the lancet;" and he accordingly fell to work, with all the delicate caution of a butcher, to phlebotomize his patient.
Eoneguski, or, the Cherokee Chief: A Tale of Past Wars. Vol. I. 1839
If that isn’t an option, then she could pop across the border, and any number of physicians in the US would be willing to phlebotomize her for a price.
Best seller list April 1-Sep 30, 2008 | The Blog of Michael R. Eades, M.D. 2008
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