arteriotomy

[ ahr-teer-ee-ot-uh-mee ]

noun

, Surgery.

, plural ar·te·ri·ot·o·mies.

1. the incision or opening into the lumen of an artery for the removal of a clot, embolus, or the like, or, formerly, for bloodletting.

Word History and Origins

Origin of arteriotomy¹

First recorded in 1625–35; arterio- + -tomy

Example Sentences

If Cannon's tacticians spoke medical terminology they might have called it "arteriotomy," for they were quite literally cutting the German supply arteries.

From Time Magazine Archive

If apoplexy arises from the pressure of blood extravasated on the brain, one moderate venesection may be of service to prevent the further effusion of blood; but copious venesection must be injurious by weakening the patient; since the effused blood must have time, as in common vibices or bruises, to undergo a chemico-animal process, so to change its nature as to fit it for absorption; which may take two or three weeks, which time a patient weakened by repeated venesection or arteriotomy may not survive.

From Project Gutenberg

He opposed arteriotomy for this reason, and refused to employ extensive cauterization.

From Project Gutenberg

That it is blood and blood alone which is contained in the arteries is made manifest by the experiment of Galen, by arteriotomy, and by wounds; for from a single divided artery, as Galen himself affirms in more than one place, the whole of the blood may be withdrawn in the course of half an hour or less.

From Project Gutenberg

And if the arteries take in and cast out air in the systole and diastole, like the lungs in the process of respiration, why do they not do the same thing when a wound is made in one of them, as in the operation of arteriotomy?

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