phlebotomy
/flɪˈbɑtəmi/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.96 in modern English
22
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
3
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
The opening of a vein, either to withdraw blood or for letting blood; venesection.
Countable; Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "Now butter with a leafe of Sage is good to Parge the bloud, Fly Venus and Phlebotomy for they are neither good."
- "Phlebotomy is promiscuously used before and after physick, commonly before and upon occasion is often reiterated, if there be any need at least of it."
- "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 […]."
- "Of course, members of the family were foremost in spilling loyal blood on Marston Moor, that great field of plebotomy to so may Cavaliers."
- "Then she made an impatient gesture with her hand. "Time was, my dear colleague, when a snuff-box was as much part of my equipment as my phlebotomy case.""
Etymology
From Old French flebothomie (French phlébotomie), from Late Latin phlebotomia, from Ancient Greek φλεβοτόμος (phlebotómos, “that opens a vein”), from φλέψ (phléps, “vein”). By surface analysis, phlebo- + -tomy.
Origin
- Source language: Old French
Word Breakdown
- Root: flebothomie, phlebotomia, φλεβοτόμος
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /flɪˈbɑtəmi/
- British English: /flɪˈbɒtəmi/