venipuncture
1 synonym for venipuncture, grouped by meaning and by how common each one is.
Noun — The act of piercing a vein with a needle, usually to take blood or set up a drip.
Synonyms
Rare, literary or technical
Precise, but they will stand out — check the sense before using one.
Etymology
From ven- + puncture, equivalent to veno- + puncture but with -i- as interconsonantal (versus -o-).
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