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名詞

venesection (countable and uncountable, plural venesections)

1. (medicine) Cutting open or exposing a vein; a phlebotomy.

   Synonym: venipuncture

   • 1676, Richard Wiseman, “Of Lepra, or Elephantiasis”, in Several Chirurgicall Treatises, London: Printed by E. Flesher and J[ohn] Macock, for R[ichard] Royston […], and B[enjamin] Took […], →OCLC, 1st book (A Treatise of Tumours), page 139:

     She had paſſed through the milder Remedies frequently without ſucceſs: upon which account I deſigned Mercurialls; and beginning with Venæſection, afterwards purged her with decoct. epithymi, as it is preſcribed in the method of Cure.

   • 1997, Roy Porter, The Greatest Benefit to Mankind, Folio Society, published 2016, page 74:

     His teachings on plethora and venesection remained influential until the nineteenth century.