phlebotomyとは意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• IPA^(key): /flɪˈbɒtəmi/

名詞

phlebotomy (countable かつ uncountable, 複数形 phlebotomies)

1. The opening of a vein, either to withdraw blood or for letting blood; venesection.
   • 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Printed by John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, OCLC 54573970, partition II, section 5, member 1, subsection ii:

     Phlebotomy is promiscuously used before and after physick, commonly before and upon occasion is often reiterated, if there be any need at least of it.

   • 1819, Walter Scott, Ivanhoe:

     He had even taken from his pocket a cupping apparatus, and was about to proceed to phlebotomy, when the object of his anxious solicitude suddenly revived […].

   • 1859, George Meredith, The Ordeal of Richard Feverel, Chapter 2:

     Of course, members of the family were foremost in spilling loyal blood on Marston Moor, that great field of plebotomy to so may Cavaliers.

   • 1926, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Land of Mist‎^[1]:

     Then she made an impatient gesture with her hand. "Time was, my dear colleague, when a snuff-box was as much part of my equipment as my phlebotomy case."

同意語

• venesection
• venipuncture

派生語

• phlebotomist