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phlebotomies

phlebotomies is the plural of phlebotomy.

Meaning of phlebotomy

Noun

phlebotomy (countable and uncountable, plural phlebotomies)

  1. The opening of a vein, either to withdraw blood or for letting blood; venesection.
    • Now butter with a leafe of Sage is good to Parge the bloud, Fly Venus and Phlebotomy for they are neither good.1607 (first performance), [Francis Beaumont], The Knight of the Burning Pestle, London: […] [Nicholas Okes] for Walter Burre, […], published 1613, →OCLC, Act IV, signature I3, verso

Questions about phlebotomies

What is phlebotomies the plural of?
Phlebotomies is the plural of phlebotomy.

Words near phlebotomies in the dictionary

  1. phlebotomic
  2. phlebotomical
  3. phlebotomically
  4. phlebotomid
  5. phlebotomids
  6. phlebotomies
  7. phlebotomine
  8. phlebotomines
  9. phlebotomise
  10. phlebotomised
  11. phlebotomises

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