vacupuncture
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]vacupuncture (uncountable)
- A blood collection system involving aspiration through a capillary.
- 1986, D. P. Poppi, “Nitrogen transactions in the digestive tract of lambs exposed to the intestinal parasite, Trichostrongylus colubriformis”, in British Journal of Nutrition, volume 55, number 3, page 593:
- Basically 300 μCi 51CrCl3 contained in 10 ml sterile saline was injected into the jugular vein and the radioactivity and protein concentration of the plasma determined in samples of blood withdrawn by vacupuncture at 09.00 hours each morning for the following 5 d.