Glossary entry

English term or phrase:

Veni = venipuncture

German translation:

Venenpunktion

Added to glossary by Bettina Rittsteuer
Jun 12, 2009 13:28
15 yrs ago
English term

Veni

English to German Medical Medical (general) hematology
"Veni for 6AM draw"
This comes at the end of a routine hematology (a report including all the wbc, rbc, hemoglobin, hematocrit etc. values)
and I've got no idea whatsoever what this could mean...

Is "veni" Latin, or is it an abbreviation?
Proposed translations (German)
3 +1 Venenpunktion

Proposed translations

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Venenpunktion

veni might be short for "venipuncture"
Examples:
Puncture of a vein, as for drawing blood, intravenous feeding, or the administration of medicine.
...cannula 14 of blood collector 1 is then located to make a veni puncture through the skin of the patient to automatically draw one or more blood ...
Peer comment(s):

agree Rolf Keiser : sounds logical.
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