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 Meaning of PHLEBOTOMY
| Pronunciation: |  | flu'bâtumee 
 
 |  | Matching Terms: |  | phlebotomise, Phlebotomist, phlebotomize, Phlebotomus, Phlebotomus papatasii 
 
 |  |  Medical Dictionary |  |  |  |  | Definition: |  | The removal of blood from a vein for diagnostic or therapeutic purposes. |  |  |  |  | Websites: |  |  |  |  |  |  Thesaurus Terms |  |  |  |  | Related Terms: |  | aspiration, bleeding, bloodletting, broaching, cupping, drafting, drainage, draining, drawing, emptying, leeching, milking, pipetting, pumping, siphoning, sucking, suction, tapping, venesection |  |  |  |     |    |  |