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VENESECT
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I. (verb)
Verb forms
Present simple: I / you / we / they venesect ... he / she / it venesects
Past simple: venesected
Past participle: venesected
-ing form: venesecting
Sense 1
Meaning:
Practice venesection
Classified under:
Verbs of grooming, dressing and bodily care
Hypernyms (to "venesect" is one way to...):
operate; operate on (perform surgery on)
Domain category:
medicine; practice of 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)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s
Derivation:
venesection (surgical incision into a vein; used to treat hemochromatosis)
