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10 letters · 22 points in Scrabble
Meaning
noun surgical incision into a vein; used to treat hemochromatosis
originFrom Old French flebothomie (French phlébotomie), from Late Latin phlebotomia, from Ancient Greek φλεβοτόμος (phlebotómos, “that opens a vein”), from φλέψ (phléps, “vein”). By surface analysis, phlebo- + -tomy.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0
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