Definition of "venesections" [venesections]

• Plural form of venesection. (noun)

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• "It is also mentioned that patients in hospitals have been detected in drinking the blood of patients after venesections, and in other instances frequenting dead-houses and sucking the blood of the recently deceased."
• "Balmes 14.66 mentions a case in which 500 venesections were performed in twenty-five years."
• "Laugier 14.67 mentions 300 venesections in twenty-six months."