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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