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... > Investigative Techniques > Clinical Laboratory Techniques > Specimen Handling > Blood Specimen Collection > Phlebotomy > Bloodletting
... > Diagnosis > Diagnostic Techniques and Procedures > Clinical Laboratory Techniques > Specimen Handling > Blood Specimen Collection > Phlebotomy > Bloodletting
Surgical Procedures, Operative > Punctures > Blood Specimen Collection > Phlebotomy > Bloodletting
Therapeutics > Punctures > Blood Specimen Collection > Phlebotomy > Bloodletting

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Bloodletting  

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  • restrict to hist articles or hist contexts: modern counterpart is PHLEBOTOMY

Scope note

  • Puncture of a vein to draw blood for therapeutic purposes. Bloodletting therapy has been used in Talmudic and Indian medicine since the medieval time, and was still practiced widely in the 18th and 19th centuries. Its modern counterpart is PHLEBOTOMY.

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