phlebotomist
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- noun
- /fləˈbɒtəmɪst/
- Specialized
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flebotomista
- However, the HPA identifies certain groups of workers that are at increased risk due to their role and/or area of work. These are: doctors; dentists; nurses; healthcare assistants; phlebotomists; domestic staff; porters; and waste-removal workers.
It's like hopefully the phlebotomist, I think is not pretty girl with her makeup done.
- It's like hopefully the phlebotomist, I think is not pretty girl with her makeup done.
Examples
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For example, if there are regular clinics for phlebotomy, this is the specific role undertaken by the phlebotomist or the HCA, and they would normally proceed with the clinic without any formalized referral by the practice nurse.
Academic text (2012) -
The OAC staff includes a full-time director, interviewers, interventionists, a phlebotomist, and outreach workers, and is available during evening and weekend hours if necessary.
Academic text (2009) -
A phlebotomist is supposed to do this.
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Brooks said she is an out-of-work phlebotomist with three kids.
Blog text (3) -
By the late 1990s, phlebotomists were being employed to take on the increasing numbers of blood tests being performed in the practice setting.
Academic text (2012) -
Medical office assistants and phlebotomists are versatile staff members because they can perform multiple patient care functions within regulatory limits.
Academic text (1997) -
In ordering a laboratory test, the patient is the ultimate customer, but there are many others: the phlebotomist, transport service, transcription, laboratory technician, physician, etc.
Academic text (1996) -
There are very few practices in the UK without an HCA, and some have a whole team of support workers including phlebotomists, HCAs, and APs.
Academic text (2012) -
June, the phlebotomist on duty, gave him the slides from Cytology, took the blood and sputum plates out of the incubator, then removed sample 265573341H from the locked freezer.
Fiction book (2001) -
The nurse called a phlebotomist to draw blood for the patient's tests.
How Experienced
Surface Forms
Morphology
phlebotomist = phlebotomy (opaque) = phlebo + tomy + ist
The agentive suffix '-ist' transparently forms 'one who does X', but the base 'phlebotomy' is a specialized medical term and not familiar to average learners.
Etymology
Phlebotomist comes from Greek parts phlebo- meaning 'vein' and -tomy meaning 'cut'. The -tomy part is the same 'cut' you see in anatomy. So a phlebotomist is someone who 'cuts' or opens a vein to take blood, which is why today it means the trained person who draws blood for tests or donations.