phlebotomize

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)

phlebotomize
    v 1: draw blood; "In the old days, doctors routinely bled
         patients as part of the treatment" [syn: {bleed}, {leech},
         {phlebotomize}, {phlebotomise}]

from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Phlebotomize \Phle*bot"o*mize\, v. t. [imp. & p. p.
   {Phlebotomized}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Phlebotomizing}.] [Cf. F.
   phl['e]botomiser.]
   To let blood from by opening a vein; to bleed. [R.] --Howell.
   [1913 Webster]