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Definition: Phlebotomy |
PhlebotomyNoun1. Surgical incision into a vein; used to treat hemochromatosis. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "phlebotomy" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1749. (references) |
| Domain | Definitions |
Health | The letting of blood from a vein. Although it is one of the techniques used in drawing blood to be used in diagnostic procedures, in modern medicine, it is used commonly in the treatment of erythrocytosis, hemochromocytosis, polycythemia vera, and porphyria cutanea tarda. Its historical counterpart is bloodletting. (From Cecil Textbook of Medicine, 19th ed & Wintrobe's Clinical Hematology, 9th ed) Venipuncture is not only for the letting of blood from a vein but also for the injecting of a drug into the vein for diagnostic analysis. (references) |
Medicine | The technic of venesection may be described briefly. . . . --the letting of blood in the treatment of a disease. Source: European Union. (references) |
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Synonym: PhlebotomySynonym: venesection (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Ejection | Egestion, evacuation; ructation, eructation; bloodletting, venesection, phlebotomy, paracentesis; expuition, exspuition; tapping, drainage; clearance, clearage. |
Remedy | Treatment, medical treatment, regimen; dietary, dietetics; vis medicatrix, vis medicatrix naturae; medecine expectante; bloodletting, bleeding, venesection, phlebotomy, cupping, sanguisae, leeches; operation, surgical operation; transfusion, infusion, intravenous infusion, catheter, feeding tube; |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Phlebotomy |
| English words defined with "phlebotomy": Phlebotomist. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "phlebotomy": Fleam. (references) |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Injecting Blood Royal or Phlebotomy at St Cloud.Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
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Health | Treatment is simple, inexpensive, and safe. The first step is to rid the body of excess iron. The process is called phlebotomy, which means removing blood. (references) | |
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| "Phlebotomy" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Phlebotomy" is used about 3 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 3 | 202,518 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "phlebotomy"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | flebotomi. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | الفصد. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | пускане на кръв. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | venaesectio (bloodletting, blood-letting), aareladning (bloodletting, blood-letting). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | venasectio (bloodletting, blood-letting), venasectie (bloodletting, blood-letting), flebotomie (bloodletting, blood-letting), aderlating (bleeding, blood-letting, loss), aderlaten (bleed). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | phlébotomie. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Aderlass (bleeding, blood letting). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | φλεβοτομία (venesection), αφαίμαξη (bleeding, blood letting). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | érvágás (venesection). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | salasso (bleeding, bloodletting, blood-letting, drain). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 瀉血 (bloodletting). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | しゃけつ (bloodletting). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ebotomyphlay sangria (bleed, bloodletting, cupping, depletion), sangrar (bleed, blood, let by, sap, stick). (various references) lãsare de sânge (blood letting), flebotomie. (various references) кровопускание (bleeding, bloodletting, blood-letting, depletion, venesection). (various references) flebotomija. (various references) sangría (bend, bleeding, blood-letting, indentation, sangaree). (various references) åderlåtning (bloodletting). (various references) kan alma (bloodletting, depletion, taking blood), damar ameliyatı. (various references) кровопускання (blood letting, venesection). (various references) sự mở tĩnh mạch (venesection). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Misspellings | |
"Phlebotomy" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: flebotomy, pblebotomy, phelbotomy, phelebotomy, philebotomy, phlabotomy, phlebitomy, phlebotamy, phlebotomoy, phlembotomy. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "phlebotomy" (pronounced 'Phle*bot"o*my'): Academy, Adenotomy, Adesmy, Adynamy, Agronomy, Alchemy, Allogamy, Anatomy, Andranatomy, Androtomy, Angiotomy, Anomy, Antinomy, Aplotomy, Apogamy, Aponeurotomy, Archenemy, Army, Arrhytmy, Arteriotomy, Astronomy, Atimy, Autogamy, Autonomy, Belamy, BIGAMY, Bionomy, Blasphemy, Blosmy, Bronchotomy, Capsulotomy, Celotomy, Cephalotomy, Chalazogamy, Chasmy, Chirognomy, Chironomy, Cholecystotomy, Chondrotomy, Cirsotomy, Clammy, Cleronomy, Coenogamy, Colotomy, Craniognomy, Craniotomy, Crummy, Cystotomy, Dactylonomy, Dysnomy. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "b-e-h-l-m-o-o-p-t-y" | |
-2 letters: holotype. | |
-3 letters: boomlet, homeboy, oophyte, pothole. | |
-4 letters: blooey, bloomy, emboly, employ, homely, methyl, mooley, motley, peyotl, phloem, phooey, phytol, pomelo, potboy, thymol, tomboy. | |
-5 letters: bhoot, bloom, bloop, blype, boomy, booth, booty, botel, bothy, empty, ethyl, helot, hempy, holey, homey, hooey, hooly, hooty, hotel, hotly, hoyle, looby, looey, loopy, lymph, mohel, molto, mopey, motel, motey. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)50 68 6C 65 62 6F 74 6F 6D 79 |
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