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Etymology
From Old French flebothomi (modern phlébotomie), from late Latin phlebotomia, from Greek φλεβοτόμος ‘that opens a vein’, from φλέπς ‘vein’.

Pronunciation
IPA|/flɪˈbɒtəmi/

Noun
en-noun|phlebotomies

1. The opening of a vein, either to withdraw blood or for letting blood; venesection.

#:*1819: 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 — Walter Scott, Ivanhoe

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