venesection

What does venesection mean?

venesection means "surgical incision into a vein; used to treat hemochromatosis".

How many syllables are in venesection?

venesection has 5 syllables: ve-ne-sec-ti-on. The stress falls on "ti".

What is another word for venesection?

Close synonyms include phlebotomy. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is venesection a common word?

venesection is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for venesection come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.