Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who practises phlebotomy; a blood-letter.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Med.) One who practiced phlebotomy.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A practitioner of
phlebotomy
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun someone who practices phlebotomy
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Examples
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A phlebotomist is someone trained to draw blood, not a lobotomist.
'The Vampire Diaries' recap: Best friends, birthdays, and brawling | EW.com 2009
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Eddie Ruiz, the phlebotomist is brought in because Bowles is known as a "hard stick" or someone with veins that are difficult to draw from.
Double transplant for type 1 diabetes brings troubles, gifts 2010
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Ola Ajayi, a phlebotomist (ooh, 'phlebotomist' - imagine that on a triple-word square) is from Nigeria, where the best players go to training camps before major championships.
Home | Mail Online 2010
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A phlebotomist is the person who takes your blood sample when you visit the doctor.
chron.com Chronicle 2010
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Also, there is a really nice turn by Mary Lynn Rajskub as a lesbian phlebotomist, which is nice, because, outside of the
Tucson Weekly 2009
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Also, there is a really nice turn by Mary Lynn Rajskub as a lesbian phlebotomist, which is nice, because, outside of the
Tucson Weekly 2009
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Q: How do you spell "phlebotomist" again - one "f" or two?
Frequently Or Infrequently Asked Questions Jeremiah McNichols 2007
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Q: How do you spell "phlebotomist" again - one "f" or two?
Archive 2007-04-01 Jeremiah McNichols 2007
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Then a 'phlebotomist' collects blood and places an intravenous support line through which to give him a drip to support his circulation.
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I think I will take some tofu for the phlebotomist ….
teflon commented on the word phlebotomist
I'm just going to see a phlebotomist for a pint.
June 19, 2008
Prolagus commented on the word phlebotomist
See also this list.
June 19, 2008
john commented on the word phlebotomist
“Mr. Sorkin and his bedbugs are featured in the newly published ‘Dark Banquet,’ a jaunty, instructive and charmingly graphic look at nature’s born phlebotomists — creatures from wildly different twigs of the phylogenetic tree that all happen to share a fondness for blood.�?
The New York Times, A Taste for Blood, by Natalie Angier, October 20, 2008
October 21, 2008