| 单词 | to breathe a vein | 
| 释义 | > as lemmasto breathe a vein  P3.    to breathe a vein: to incise a superficial vein in order to let blood; to perform venesection. Cf. breathing n. 8. Now historical. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > medical treatment > surgery > bloodletting > let blood			[verb (intransitive)]		 > practise venesection phlebotomize1598 to breathe a vein1641 1641    J. Short Soliloquies Theologicall 95  				The Chirurgion breathe a veine, how glad wee'd be T'come under th'cure of such a skilfull hand. 1748    S. Richardson Clarissa VII. lxvi. 230  				They were forced to breathe a vein, to bring her to herself. 1836    F. Marryat Japhet I. iv. 41  				Permitting me to breathe a vein in his own arm. 1996    R. Porter in  Cambr. Illustr. Hist. Med. vi. 207  				This was popularly called ‘breathing a vein’. < as lemmas  | 
	
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