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ven•i•punc•ture
Pronunciation: (ven'u-pungk"chur, vē'nu-), [key]—
n. Med.
the puncture of a vein for surgical or therapeutic purposes or for collecting blood specimens for analysis.
Also,venepuncture.Random House Unabridged Dictionary, Copyright © 1997, by Random House, Inc., on Infoplease.