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It is typically used in medical contexts to refer to the process of puncturing a vein to obtain blood for testing or treatment. Example: "The nurse performed a venipuncture to collect a blood sample for analysis." Alternatives include "blood draw" or "venous access."
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venipuncture
noun
The collection of blood from a vein.
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Even a venipuncture (say, for tissue typing) could be conceived of as shpikhut damim, a spilling of blood with nefarious intent.
Holmes strongly disagrees: "We have data that show you can get a perfect correlation between a finger stick and a venipuncture for every test that we run".
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