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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  • I'm just going to see a phlebotomist for a pint.

    June 19, 2008

  • See also this list.

    June 19, 2008

  • “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