venipuncture
venipuncture noun: the puncture of a vein, usually to draw a blood sample, collect a blood donation, or insert an intravenous line.
Noun
venipuncture (countable and uncountable, plural venipunctures)
- The puncture of a vein, usually to draw a blood sample, collect a blood donation, or insert an intravenous line.
- Synonyms:
- blood draw, phlebotomy, venesection
Verb
venipuncture (third-person singular simple present venipunctures, present participle venipuncturing, simple past and past participle venipunctured)
venipuncture meaning in Tamil and Indonesian
venipuncture in Tamil
- சிரை துளைத்தல்
venipuncture in Indonesian
- hematology: the collection of blood from a vein
- venipunktur
Synonyms of venipuncture
Forms of venipuncture
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | venipunctures |
| alternative form | venepuncture |
| alternative form | venopuncture |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | venipunctures |
| present participle | venipuncturing |
| past participle | venipunctured |
| past | venipunctured |
Origin of venipuncture
From ven- + puncture, equivalent to veno- + puncture but with -i- as interconsonantal (versus -o-).
Words formed from venipuncture
Questions about venipuncture
- What does venipuncture mean?
- Venipuncture means the puncture of a vein, usually to draw a blood sample, collect a blood donation, or insert an intravenous line.
- What is venipuncture in Tamil?
- Venipuncture in Tamil is சிரை துளைத்தல். See Venipuncture meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is venipuncture?
- Venipuncture can be a noun or a verb.
- What is the plural of venipuncture?
- The plural of venipuncture is venipunctures.
Words near venipuncture in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: venipuncture (page history and authors); venipuncture (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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