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🇰🇷Korean Source WordCode: KO

정맥절개술

Pronunciation / Transliteration: jeongmaekjeolgaesul

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Phlebotomy/fləˈbɒt.ə.mi/
nounCEFR C2 (Proficient)Top #14200 frequency
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🇰🇷 Example Sentence in Korean:

"혈액 검사를 위해 정맥절개술을 시행했습니다."

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As noun
  1. 1

    The practice of drawing blood from a vein, especially for diagnostic laboratory testing.

    "The diagnostic center required a certified technician skilled in phlebotomy to collect the patient's blood samples."
  2. 2

    The surgical opening or puncture of a vein.

    "Historically, phlebotomy was widely practiced as a primary therapeutic intervention to balance bodily humors."
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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from the Greek words phleps, meaning vein, and tomē, meaning cutting or incision. The term entered Middle English via Medieval Latin phlebotomia, originally referring to the historical medical practice of bloodletting before evolving into its modern clinical sense of drawing blood for analysis.

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