venesect

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Verb1.venesect - practice venesection
practice of medicine, medicine - the learned profession that is mastered by graduate training in a medical school and that is devoted to preventing or alleviating or curing diseases and injuries; "he studied medicine at Harvard"
operate on, operate - perform surgery on; "The doctors operated on the patient but failed to save his life"
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Like doctors from medieval times we treat these patients by bleeding them (or in the jargon venesect them) which quickly reduces the risk of thrombosis, a major worry in this condition.
Dr Scott's surgery - Itch was early sign of blood condition
She was asked to suspend her tibolone and commence low dose aspirin and venesected 450 mL twice while awaiting urther investigations.
Polycythaemia Secondary to Hormone Replacement Therapy with Tibolone
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