| 单词 | heel prick |
| 释义 | > as lemmasheel prick heel prick n. the action of pricking a heel, esp. of a newborn baby, with a lancet or other device in order to obtain a small sample of blood; an instance of this; frequently attributive; = heel stick n. ΚΠ 1946 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 21 Dec. 973/1 For the performance of the direct Coombs' test, a few drops of blood taken from the newborn infant, from the cord or from a heel-prick, are dropped into citrate. 1996 Daily Tel. 4 June 18/8 After about a week, every new-born baby is given a heel prick test. 2003 N. T. Hatfield Introd. Pediatric Nursing (ed. 6) viii. 117/2 I was stressed out from listening to my infant wail at the heel pricks. < as lemmas |
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