Crossword-Solution: VENESECTION
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Venesection | n. | The act or operation of opening a vein for letting blood; bloodletting; phlebotomy. |
We have 4 clues for the answer “VENESECTION”
| Clue | Answers |
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| venisection | 2 answers |
| phlebotomy | 2 answers |
| CUTTING of vein | 3 answers |
| VEIN-cutting in order to let blood | 5 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
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greedy person
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Sentences with VENESECTION (5)
The treatment in this case is quite interesting, and was as follows: venesection to faintness, castor oil in infusion of senna until there was a free evacuation of the bowels, 12 leeches to the abdomen and spine, and a saline mixture every two hours! Such depleting therapeutics would in themselves seem almost sufficient to provoke a fatal issue, and were given in good faith as the means of effecting a recovery in such a case.
Possibly the most remarkable instances of extensive loss of blood, with recoveries, are to be found in the older records of venesection.
The reckless way in which venesection was resorted to, led to its disuse, until to-day it has so vanished from medical practice that even its benefits are overlooked, and depletion is brought about in some other manner.
Bartholomew he owed his life to the personal friendship of Charles IX., whom he had on one occasion saved from the dangerous effects of a wound inflicted by a clumsy surgeon in performing the operation of venesection.
Venesection, for instance, has so far gone out of fashion, that, as I am told by residents of the New York Bellevue and the Massachusetts General Hospitals, it is almost obsolete in these institutions, at least in medical practice.