phlebotomy

medicine

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In bloodletting: Bloodletting in the modern world
Today, the word phlebotomy refers to the drawing of blood for use in diagnosis or for transfusions in conventional medicine. Phlebotomy is, arguably, a form of bloodletting—and sometimes the words are considered effectively synonymous—but the modern-day practice has nothing to do with the traditional purposes and techniques of…
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