单词 | phlebotomy |
释义 | phlebotomyn. 1. The action or practice of extracting blood from a vein for therapeutic or diagnostic purposes (originally by surgical incision of the vein, later by means of a needle and syringe, cannula, etc.); venesection; venepuncture. Also as a count noun: an instance of this.Therapeutic phlebotomy, a very common practice until the mid-19th cent., is now used chiefly for the treatment of iron overload as in haemochromatosis. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > medical treatment > surgery > bloodletting > [noun] > venesection phlebotomya1400 phlebotomization1598 phlebotomizing1598 arteriotomy1634 breathing1639 venesection1661 a1400 tr. Lanfranc Sci. Cirurgie (Ashm.) (1894) 83 (MED) A walkynge vlcus is heelid wiþ fleobotomie & formacie [?a1450 BL Add. flebotomye & ffarmasye]. c1425 tr. J. Arderne Treat. Fistula (Sloane 6) (1910) 61 (MED) Þe maner of doyng of þis fleobotomye is þat it be done about þe hour of euensong. 1542 A. Borde Compend. Regyment Helth xxiii. sig. L.iv Yf blode do abound clense it with stufes, or by fleubothomye. 1599 R. Hakluyt tr. E. de Sande in Princ. Navigations (new ed.) II. ii. 90 They haue no Phlebotomie or letting of blood. 1621 R. Burton Anat. Melancholy ii. v. i. ii. 462 Phlebotomy is promiscuously vsed before and after Physicke. 1665 T. Herbert Some Years Trav. (new ed.) 177 Phlebotomy was held too mean a remedy for her distemper. 1744 Gentleman's Mag. Feb. 92/2 A little gentle Phlebotomy, at the proper Time of the Year, is another admirable Secret. 1780 S. Johnson Let. 24 Aug. (1992) III. 304 Gentle purges, and slight phlebotomies, are not my favourites, they are popgun batteries, which lose time and effect nothing. 1819 W. Scott Ivanhoe III. viii. 196 He had even taken from his pocket a cupping apparatus, and was about to proceed to phlebotomy. 1877 R. N. Khory Digest Med. 60 Marks of leech bites, and of phlebotomy. 1968 Jrnl. Pediatrics 73 298/2 Following phlebotomies, during which at least 20 per cent of the infant's blood volume was removed, there was dramatic improvement and disappearance of the signs of congestive heart failure. 1996 Arch. Dis. Childhood 74 482 Daily serum nitrite and nitrate levels were measured from serum samples that remained in the clinical laboratory after daily routine phlebotomy. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > medical appliances or equipment > surgical instruments > [noun] > knife, lancet, or scalpel blood iron1401 phlebotomec1425 lancentc1440 lancet1474 phlebotomy1477 lancer1537 fleam1552 racer1570 lancelet1574 lance1575 lance-knife1610 catling1617 incision-knife1617 bistort1655 scalpel1742 bistoury1748 dissector1841 scarificator1879 thumb-lancet1903 1477 Earl Rivers tr. Dictes or Sayengis Philosophhres (Caxton) (1877) lf. 17 Ypocras.., holding in his honde a flabotomye of munycion for latyng blood. 3. Something resembling the action or process of phlebotomy; esp. extraction or drainage of life, money, resources, etc. ΚΠ ?1589 T. Nashe Almond for Parrat sig. 3v O it is a haire~brande whooresonne, and well seene in Phlebotomie. 1646 J. Hall Horæ Vacivæ 151 Warre is the Phlebotomy of the Body Politique. 1715 A. Pope Key to Lock (ed. 2) Ep. Ded. p. v Such principles as yours would again reduce us to the fatal Necessity of the Phlebotomy of War. 1796 Old Poor Robin 27 That specific medicinal called birch, that sovereign antidote of folly, the phlebotomy of which smartly and properly applied, has so often been known to yield relief. 1827 Gentleman's Mag. 97 ii. 539 Fiscal Phlebotomy was unknown, as a science, to our ancestors. 1936 Fortune Oct. 156/2 Other northern mines began the slow phlebotomy of towns, families, and traditions known in the industry as ‘going non-union’. 1994 Economist (Nexis) 11 June (Business section) 84 As urban arteries seize up.., a little financial phlebotomy looks very appealing. Bleed some of the vehicles from the roads at rush hour by charging drivers to use them. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). † phlebotomyv. Obsolete. rare. transitive. To perform phlebotomy upon. ΚΠ ?a1425 tr. Guy de Chauliac Grande Chirurgie (N.Y. Acad. Med.) f. 154 (MED) For to fleobotomye þo veynez þat only be about or after þe eyen helpeþ þe passionz of þe eyen. c1425 tr. J. Arderne Treat. Fistula (Sloane 6) (1910) 71 (MED) Make he þe pacient for to be fleobotomed of þe vtter veynez of þe leggez. DerivativesΚΠ ?a1425 tr. Guy de Chauliac Grande Chirurgie (N.Y. Acad. Med.) f. 155v A fleobotomyer oweþ for to be a ȝong man, able & wele seyng, and customed in fleobotomying [?c1425 Paris vsede to late blode], & warned or stored of gode launcetez. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, March 2006; most recently modified version published online September 2021). < n.a1400v.?a1425 |
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