v 4 e 1 n 1 i 1 p 3 u 1 n 1 c 3 t 1 u 1 r 1 e 1
12 letters · 19 points in Scrabble
Meaning
noun (medicine) puncture of a vein through the skin in order to withdraw blood for analysis or to start an intravenous drip or to inject medication or a radiopaque dye
originFrom ven- + puncture, equivalent to veno- + puncture but with -i- as interconsonantal (versus -o-).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0
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