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vacupuncture

vacupuncture noun: a blood collection system involving aspiration through a capillary.

Noun

vacupuncture (uncountable)

  1. A blood collection system involving aspiration through a capillary.
    • Basically 300 μCi ⁵¹CrCl₃ contained in 10 ml sterile saline was injected into the jugular vein and the radioactivity and protein concentration of the plasma determined in samples of blood withdrawn by vacupuncture at 09.00 hours each morning for the following 5 d.1986, D. P. Poppi, “Nitrogen transactions in the digestive tract of lambs exposed to the intestinal parasite, Trichostrongylus colubriformis”, in British Journal of Nutrition, volume 55, number 3...

Origin of vacupuncture

Blend of vacuum + puncture.

Questions about vacupuncture

What does vacupuncture mean?
Vacupuncture means a blood collection system involving aspiration through a capillary.
What part of speech is vacupuncture?
Vacupuncture is a noun.

Words near vacupuncture in the dictionary

  1. vacuous
  2. vacuous truth
  3. vacuous truths
  4. vacuously
  5. vacuousness
  6. vacupuncture
  7. vacutained
  8. vacutainer
  9. vacutainers
  10. vacutome
  11. vacutomes

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