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Definition of Venesection

Venesection
Venesection Ve`ne*sec"tion, n. [NL. venaesectio; L. vena vein + sectio section.] (Med.) The act or operation of opening a vein for letting blood; bloodletting; phlebotomy.

Meaning of Venesection from wikipedia

- In medicine, venipuncture or venepuncture is the process of obtaining intravenous access for the purpose of venous blood sampling (also called phlebotomy)...
- anatomical handbook, Institutiones anatomicae. In 1539 he also published his Venesection Epistle on bloodletting. This was a po****r treatment for almost any...
- Breathing a Vein, a caricature of bloodletting by venesection by James Gillray, 1804...
- different methods were emplo****. The most common was phlebotomy, or venesection (often called "breathing a vein"), in which blood was drawn from one...
- the 1860s, Brunton noted that the pain of angina could be lessened by venesection and wrongly concluded that the pain must be due to elevated blood pressure...
- detecting liver fibrosis in hemochromatosis. Phlebotomy, bloodletting or venesection is the mainstay of treatment in iron overload, consisting of regularly...
- autoimmune hepatitis. Regularly removing a quantity of blood from a vein (venesection) in the iron overload condition, hemochromatosis. Wilson's disease, a...
- measures 1.XIV Lymph chyle: menstrual blood and its nature, swellings, venesection, causes of excessive bleeding, causes of scanty bleeding, measures to...
- all. Anticoagulants are used when venous thromboembolism is present. Venesection is used in severe secondary polycythemia (because of hypoxia), which...
- asymptomatic carriers of hereditary haemochromatosis treatment with venesection (phlebotomy) provides any clinical benefit. Recently, patients are suggested...