What's the difference between phlebotomize and phlebotomy?
Phlebotomize
Definition:
(v. t.) To let blood from by opening a vein; to bleed.
Example Sentences:
(1) No significant difference in the serum osmotic pressure between the infected calves and the phlebotomized calves was found.
(2) Eight of the phlebotomized subjects, but none of the controls, reported subjective clinical improvement (P less than 0.005).
(3) Patients treated with myelosuppressive agents showed a significantly greater risk of chromosome abnormalities developing than did patients who had been phlebotomized.
(4) The absorption of food iron in relation to the diet was studied in 10 phlebotomized normal young male subjects during 3 to 5 months.
(5) Erythropoiesis was stimulated in 2- to 5-day-old normal neonatal rats nursed by phlebotomized mothers, and in 12-day-old hypertransfused neonatal suckled for 4 days by a twice-bled mother.
(6) Reticulocytes were obtained from phlebotomized rabbits and separated from whole blood by discontinuous density gradient centrifugation.
(7) In contrast, 50 patients who spent part or all of their hospitalization in an intensive care unit were phlebotomized a mean of 3.4 times a day, for a mean volume of 41.5 ml of blood drawn a day and a total volume of 762.2 ml.
(8) Those respondents who felt that they had adequate medical support agreed with more liberal donor criteria and were more confident about phlebotomizing pediatric, cardiac, and elderly patients (r = -.32; p = 0.001).
(9) It is concluded that, contrary to what might be expected, phlebotomizing large numbers of autologous donors does not reduce the anxiety of staff members when they encounter donors with complex medical problems.
(10) Patients phlebotomized preoperatively took 325 mgm of oral iron t.i.d.
(11) Three aspects of iron metabolism were studies in reticulocytes from iron-deficient, phlebotomized, and phenylhydrazine-treated rats: (1) the number of transferrin binding sites; (2) the uptake of 59Fe-transferrin; and (3) the ability of cytosol to mobilize 59Fe from 59Fe-labeled reticulocyte plasma membrane.
(12) Saline replacement of blood volume following hemorrhage increased the total numbers and differential percentages of circulating reticulocytes at 72 hr postphlebotomy above the reticulocyte values of phlebotomized quail receiving no saline in both adult and juvenile Japanese quail.
(13) We isolated and cultured erythroblastic islands (EI) from the spleens of phlebotomized mice using a combination of collagenase digestion, unit gravity sedimentation, and Percoll density gradients separation.
(14) Oriental Sore is the dry cutaneous form of leishmaniasis, a parasitic infection common to man and to certain vertebrates and transmitted by insects: the phlebotomes.
(15) The patients were phlebotomized after each hemodialysis at any time the predialysis hematocrit was 35% or greater.
(16) Erythropoiesis was stimulated in 2- to 5-day-old neonatal rats suckled by phlebotomized mothers.
(17) In the present study, a group of six elite cross-country skiers, who were phlebotomized and retransfused with 1350 ml of blood 4 weeks later, was compared with a control group (n = 7) in whom no blood doping was performed.
(18) Analogous results were observed in phlebotomized jaundiced Gunn rats.
(19) Nine chronically instrumented pregnant sheep (114-128 d gestation), phlebotomized from the iliac artery at the point of origin of the uterine artery, were studied at baseline, after acute hemorrhage, and immediately and two h after replacement of the blood.
(20) Polycythemic patients monitored with microhematocrits may be phlebotomized incorrectly because of this abnormality.
Phlebotomy
Definition:
(n.) The act or practice of opening a vein for letting blood, in the treatment of disease; venesection; bloodletting.
Example Sentences:
(1) This is of clinical importance as IHC can be successfully treated by phlebotomy.
(2) PPMM occurred in about the same incidence in the patients treated with myelosuppressive therapy as by phlebotomy alone, the spent phase occurring in 16 patients treated by phlebotomy alone, 11 with chlorambucil, and 12 with 32P.
(3) The ferritin content of liver and spleen in normal and iron-loaded rats decreased during repeated phlebotomy.
(4) A marked reduction in the area covered by adventitial cells was recorded coinciding with the early reticulocyte response to phlebotomy.
(5) Chloroquine may be used as a provocative diagnostic test for patients with a questionably latent PCT but this is safe if phlebotomy is performed beforehand.
(6) One group received recombinant human erythropoietin to increase hematocrit, and another group was subjected to phlebotomy and fed a low-iron diet to induce anemia.
(7) Twenty-five patients with overt clinical and biochemical findings of porphyria cutanea tarda took part in a study comparing intensive phlebotomy with slow subcutaneous desferrioxamine treatment.
(8) Erythrocyte and plasma ferritin was followed in 13 patients with iron overload undergoing phlebotomies for at least 6 months in comparison with untreated patients and normal males.
(9) A multicompartmental model of erythrokinetics and bilirubin production has been developed to predict the consequences of chronic phlebotomy on daily bilirubin turnover.
(10) Hb values gradually increased, but did not completely recover to pre-phlebotomy levels by day 56.
(11) The two groups had similar mean predonation values of internal carotid flow velocity (ICFV): blood donation was followed in both groups by a slight, transient decrease of ICFV at the end of phlebotomy, due to donation-induced hypovolemia, and then by an increase of ICFV lasting 7 to 10 days.
(12) We conclude that the technical skills of phlebotomists and patient satisfaction with phlebotomy are outstanding, but that patient discomfort from the procedure needs to be minimized.
(13) It is emphasized that serum ferritin measurements are useful for monitoring of intensive phlebotomy therapy, and in particular to indicate the end of therapy before anemia develops.
(14) He was already diagnosed as having erythrocytosis secondary to pulmonary fibrosis 4 years previously and the values of his hematocrit (Ht) were maintained between 44.5 and 62.9% by repeated phlebotomy.
(15) Serum levels of transferrin receptor and erythropoietin were determined in 2 patients with hereditary hemochromatosis undergoing phlebotomy therapy.
(16) They received phlebotomies, plasmapheresis, and transfusions of erythrocytes and platelets.
(17) The operation was performed 2 weeks after the last phlebotomy.
(18) For in vitro studies, a triplet study design was used, in which WBC-reduced PCs were matched to standard PCs and to WBC-enriched PCs obtained from the same donor at the same phlebotomy.
(19) Although there was an increase in the level of serum immunoreactive erythropoietin with successive phlebotomies, the increase was not substantially out of the normal range.
(20) Two effective and reliable methods exist - repeated phlebotomy therapy and prolonged low-dose chloroquine.