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PHLEBOTOMISE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does phlebotomise mean?
• PHLEBOTOMISE (verb)
The verb PHLEBOTOMISE has 1 sense:
1. draw blood
Familiarity information: PHLEBOTOMISE used as a verb is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
| Conjugation: |
... he / she / it phlebotomises Past simple: phlebotomised
Past participle: phlebotomised
-ing form: phlebotomising
Sense 1
Meaning:
Draw blood
Classified under:
Verbs of grooming, dressing and bodily care
Synonyms:
bleed; leech; phlebotomise; phlebotomize
Context example:
In the old days, doctors routinely bled patients as part of the treatment
Hypernyms (to "phlebotomise" is one way to...):
care for; treat (provide treatment for)
Domain category:
medicine; practice of medicine (the learned profession that is mastered by graduate training in a medical school and that is devoted to preventing or alleviating or curing diseases and injuries)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s somebody
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