"venesection" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1676, Richard Wiseman, “Of Lepra, or Elephantiasis”, in Several Chirurgicall Treatises, London: Printed by E. Flesher and J[ohn] Macock, for R[ichard] Royston […], and B[enjamin] Took […], →OCLC, 1st book (A Treatise of Tumours), page 139:",
          "text": "She had paſſed through the milder Remedies frequently without ſucceſs: upon which account I deſigned Mercurialls; and beginning with Venæſection, afterwards purged her with decoct. epithymi, as it is preſcribed in the method of Cure.",
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          "text": "His teachings on plethora and venesection remained influential until the nineteenth century.",
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        "Cutting open or exposing a vein; phlebotomy."
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        "(medicine) Cutting open or exposing a vein; phlebotomy."
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