VENIPUNCTURE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does venipuncture mean? 

• VENIPUNCTURE (noun)
  The noun VENIPUNCTURE has 1 sense:

1. (medicine) puncture of a vein through the skin in order to withdraw blood for analysis or to start an intravenous drip or to inject medication or a radiopaque dye

  Familiarity information: VENIPUNCTURE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• VENIPUNCTURE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

(medicine) puncture of a vein through the skin in order to withdraw blood for analysis or to start an intravenous drip or to inject medication or a radiopaque dye

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("venipuncture" is a kind of...):

puncture (the act of puncturing or perforating)

Domain category:

medical specialty; medicine (the branches of medical science that deal with nonsurgical techniques)

 Context examples 

Intervention includes both physical procedures by which data are gathered (for example, venipuncture) and manipulations of the subject or the subject's environment that are performed for research purposes.

(Human Study Subject, Food and Drug Administration)

Also called venipuncture.

(Phlebotomy, NCI Dictionary)