What does venesection mean?

venesection

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.10 in modern English

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Countable; Uncountable

"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."
"His teachings on plethora and venesection remained influential until the nineteenth century."

venesections (plural)

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