Usually means: Draw blood for medical purposes.
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We found 20 dictionaries that define the word phlebotomize:

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  1. phlebotomize: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  2. phlebotomize: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  3. phlebotomize: Collins English Dictionary
  4. phlebotomize: Vocabulary.com
  5. phlebotomize: Wordnik
  6. phlebotomize: Wiktionary
  7. phlebotomize: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. phlebotomize: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. phlebotomize: Dictionary.com
  10. Phlebotomize: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  11. phlebotomize: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  12. phlebotomize: Rhymezone
  13. Phlebotomize: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  14. phlebotomize: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  15. phlebotomize: FreeDictionary.org
  16. phlebotomize: Mnemonic Dictionary
  17. phlebotomize: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. phlebotomize: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. phlebotomize: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. phlebotomize: Medical dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (phlebotomize)

verb:  (transitive) To perform a phlebotomy on (a vein): to open (a vein) to withdraw or let blood.
verb:  (transitive) To perform a phlebotomy on (a person): to open a vein of (a person) to withdraw or let blood.
verb:  (intransitive) To perform a phlebotomy; to open a vein to withdraw or let blood.

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