Meanings
plural venesections
- countableuncountablemedicineCutting open or exposing a vein; a phlebotomy.
His teachings on plethora and venesection remained influential until the nineteenth century.
1997, Roy Porter, The Greatest Benefit to Mankind, Folio Society, published 2016, page 741 more example
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.
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 139Synonyms: venipuncture
Synonyms & antonyms
nounCutting open or exposing a vein; a phlebotomy.
More synonyms by meaning
nounsurgical incision into a vein; used to treat hemochromatosis
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