| phlebotomy aspiration bleeding bloodletting broaching cupping drafting drainage draining drawing emptying leeching milking pipetting pumping siphoning sucking suction tapping venesection |
| Phlebotomy (n.) The act or practice of opening a vein for letting blood, in the treatment of disease |
| Venesection (n.) The act or operation of opening a vein for letting blood |
| venesection phlebotomy | surgical incision into a vein, used to treat hemochromatosis |