phlebotomy
pronunciation
How to pronounce phlebotomy in British English:
UK [fləˈbɒtəmi]
How to pronounce phlebotomy in American English:
US [fləˈbɑtəmi]
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- Noun:
- surgical incision into a vein; used to treat hemochromatosis
Word Origin
- phlebotomy (n.)
- "bloodletting," c. 1400, flebotomye, from Old French flebotomie (13c., Modern French phlébotomie), from medical Latin phlebotomia, from Greek phlebotomia "blood-letting," from phlebotomos "opening veins," from phleps (genitive phlebos) "vein" + -tomia "cutting of," from tome "a cutting" (see tome).
Example
- 1. Objective : Discuss the venesection and phlebotomy therapy .
- 2. Results : As a simple and effective medical treatment , venesection and phlebotomy therapy could be the supplement of other therapy and method of adjunctive therapy .
- 3. The animal model of iron low-load was created by intravenation of deferoxamine ( DFO ) or phlebotomy respectively , and immunological liver damage model was reproduced by injection of BCG ( Bacilli Calmette Guein ) and lipopolysaccharide ( LPS ) .
- 4. Methods : Totally 48 male Wistar rats were randomly divided into 6 groups : control group , liver injury group , phlebotomy control group , phlebotomy control group , phlebotomy liver injury group , deferoxamine control group ( DFO ), and deferoxamine liver injury group . The animal model of iron low load was made by DFO or phlebotomy . Immunological liver damage model was established by injection of lipopolysaccharide ( LPS ) and BCG ( Bacilli Calmette Guein ) .
- 5. Protective effect of phlebotomy in experimental liver damage