PHLEBOTOMIZE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does phlebotomize mean? 

• PHLEBOTOMIZE (verb)
  The verb PHLEBOTOMIZE has 1 sense:

1. draw blood

  Familiarity information: PHLEBOTOMIZE used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PHLEBOTOMIZE (verb)

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

Classified under:

Verbs of grooming, dressing and bodily care

Synonyms:

bleed; leech; phlebotomise; phlebotomize

Context example:

In the old days, doctors routinely bled patients as part of the treatment

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)