phlebotomizev.
/flᵻˈbɒtəmʌɪz/, U.S. /fləˈbɑdəˌmaɪz/ 1. transitive. To perform phlebotomy upon. Also in extended use and figurative.
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the world > health and disease > healing > medical treatment > surgery > bloodletting > let blood of [verb (transitive)] > by venesection > bleed by venesection
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1596 T. Nashe Haue with you to Saffron-Walden sig. Bv Phlebothomize them, sting them, tutch them.
1598 A. M. tr. J. Guillemeau Frenche Chirurg. 29 b/2 The liver vayn is phlebotomized agaynst the yellowe gaundise.
1644 J. Howell England's Teares in Dodona's Grove 160 Body politiques,..as well as the frayle bodies of men..must have an evacuation for their corrupt humours, they must be phlebotomiz'd.
1658 W. Johnson tr. F. Würtz Surgeons Guid iii. xvii. 271 If a patient hath bled nere so much, they will phlebotomize him further, which is an ill and refusable way.
1716 B. Griffin Humours of Purgatory i. 18 He must be liberally phlebotomiz'd, his Bleedings frequent and plentiful.
1796 J. Anstey Pleader's Guide ii. 73 Bother. You took some blood, Sir, from him. Tench. Plenty—Phlebotomiz'd him ounces twenty.
1842 Fraser's Mag. 26 452 The sheriffs..were fundamentally phlebotomised and dephlogisticated by the fragments of their own swords.
1862 A. Gurowski Diary I. 186 And to think that all these agents heavily phlebotomize Uncle Sam's pockets to obtain such contemptible results!
1876 R. F. Burton Two Trips Gorilla Land I. 131 At night the mosquitoes phlebotomized us.
1894 C. D. C. Reade Cloister & Hearth 218 Gerard colored a little, and told him the learned doctor was going to phlebotomize him and cauterize him.
1909 J. Davidson Fleet St. & Other Poems (1909) 107 We know the fates phlebotomise the world, And alternate with peace's patent pill.
1950 Amer. Jrnl. Med. 9 164 On the day before admission to The Mt. Sinai Hospital the patient was phlebotomized because of pulmonary edema.
1986 New Eng. Jrnl. Med. 8 May 1233 In contrast, 50 patients who spent part or all of their hospitalization in an intensive care unit were phlebotomized a mean of 3.4 times a day.
2002 Amer. Jrnl. Gastroenterol. 97 1095/1 This reviewer phlebotomizes all nonacutely ill HCV [= hepatitis C virus] patients with serum ferritins of >200 ng/ml by removing a unit of blood every other week.
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the world > health and disease > healing > medical treatment > surgery > bloodletting > let blood [verb (intransitive)] > practise venesection
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1598 A. M. tr. J. Guillemeau Frenche Chirurg. 27 b/1 To phlebotomize aright, is oftentimes a difficulte matter.
1701 Dispensary Transvers'd 79 By their Unanimous Advice, He with reluctance did Phlebotomize.
1752 London Mag. 21 215/1 Her physician assured her 'twas in vain to evacuate, or phlebotomize any more.
a1804 J. Tobin Honey Moon (1805) iii. iii. 49 Yet very feverish! I begin to fear Some inward bruise..We must phlebotomize!
1859 J. S. Knowles William Tell i. iii. 128 How skilfully he can phlebotomize. No scratch, sir, prick of a pin, or flea-bite, sir, But real blade-work. Let him bleed you, sir!
1873 R. Browning Red Cotton Night-cap Country iii. 153 The while I blister and phlebotomize!
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the world > health and disease > healing > medical treatment > surgery > bloodletting > let blood [verb (intransitive)] > practise venesection > undergo venesection
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a1632 T. Middleton & J. Webster Any Thing for Quiet Life (1662) iii. l. 301 I must Phlebotomize sir..; I dare not cut my own throat, but if I finde any president that ever Barber hang'd himself, Ile be the second example.
1652 E. Benlowes Theophila xi. xxiv. 196 Post for Physicks Skill; Phlebotomize he must, and take the Vomit Pill.
1800 C. Lamb in Wks. (1875) 80 Read ‘Albertus Magnus de Chartis Amassis’ five times over after phlebotomizing—'tis Burton's recipe.
Derivatives
phleˈbotomized adj. subjected to phlebotomy; (of blood) obtained by phlebotomy.
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the world > health and disease > healing > medical treatment > surgery > bloodletting > [adjective] > venesection > having undergone
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1631 S. Jerome Arraignem. Whole Creature v. 36 Yea, they would..make Bread and Cates of the Blood of their Phlebotomized bullockes.
a1729 E. Taylor Metrical Hist. Christianity (1962) 21 Doth point his sparkling sword in Holy blood Drawn from the Saints, Phlebotomizd, aflood.
1976 Mayo Clinic Proc. 51 723/2 Immediate preoperative phlebotomy with subsequent artificial hemodilution and later return of the phlebotomized blood.
1995 Jrnl. Exper. Med. 181 411 Central macrophages of erythroblastic islands isolated from the spleens of phlebotomized mice were clearly stained for vascular cell adhesion molecule 1.
phleˈbotomizing n. and adj.
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the world > health and disease > healing > medical treatment > surgery > bloodletting > [noun] > venesection
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1598 A. M. tr. J. Guillemeau Frenche Chirurg. 2 b/2 Phlebotomisinge or blood-lettinge.
1655 W. Hammond Poems 37 To charge the rusty Sword of the severe Stoick Phlebotomizing Galen.
1788 V. Knox Winter Evenings II. 82 Choleric orators in the British and Irish parliaments may..receive great benefits from the phlebotomizing system of morality.
1827 J. F. Cooper Prairie I. ix. 138 I am not of the phlebotomizing school at all; greatly preferring the practice which purifies the blood instead of abstracting it.
1865 Pall Mall Gaz. 14 Aug. 11 These phlebotomizing days are now, however, long gone by.
1930 Amer. Jrnl. Surg. 8 681-8 I remember his ordering a wholesale bleeding of his patients, right and left, one morning when a phlebotomizing fit was on him.
1996 Biochem. Pharmacol. 51 484/2 Antibodies used in these studies were raised in rabbits by injecting the peptides with Titer max adjuvant, phlebotomizing, and checking antibody titer by ELISA assay.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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