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PHLEBOTOMIZE
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I. (verb)
Verb forms
Present simple: I / you / we / they phlebotomize ... he / she / it phlebotomizes
Past simple: phlebotomized
Past participle: phlebotomized
-ing form: phlebotomizing
Sense 1
Meaning:
Draw blood
Example:
In the old days, doctors routinely bled patients as part of the treatment
Synonyms:
bleed; leech; phlebotomise; phlebotomize
Classified under:
Verbs of grooming, dressing and bodily care
Hypernyms (to "phlebotomize" is one way to...):
care for; treat (provide treatment for)
Domain category:
medicine; practice of medicine (the learned profession that is mastered by graduate training in a medical school and that is devoted to preventing or alleviating or curing diseases and injuries)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s somebody
Derivation:
phlebotomy (surgical incision into a vein; used to treat hemochromatosis)
