venipuncture

1. 1.

   (medicine) puncture of a vein through the skin in order to withdraw blood for analysis or to start an intravenous drip or to inject medication or a radiopaque dye

   Broaderpuncture

   medicine

Other forms of venipuncture

plural

venipunctures·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about venipuncture

What does venipuncture mean?

venipuncture means "(medicine) puncture of a vein through the skin in order to withdraw blood for analysis or to start an intravenous drip or to inject medication or a radiopaque dye".

How many syllables are in venipuncture?

venipuncture has 4 syllables: ve-ni-punc-ture. The stress falls on "ni".

Is venipuncture a common word?

venipuncture 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.