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 corrected and augmented 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 […].

同意語

• venesection
• venipuncture

派生語

• phlebotomist

Further reading

• phlebotomy on Wikipedia.
• phlebotomy in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• phlebotomy in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
• phlebotomy at OneLook Dictionary Search