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A venipuncture is a puncture in a vein. As when a person gives blood or has a blood test run.
You use your thumb to keep the vein from "rolling" while doing a venipuncture.
Risks for this test are minimal, but may include slight bleeding from the blood-drawing site, fainting or feeling lightheaded after venipuncture, or hematoma (blood accumulating under the puncture site).
See the Web Links to the left for more information about venipuncture.
Venipuncture is the medical term used when drawing blood. Basically, it means your vein has had a needle stuck into it for some purpose.
it promotes vasoconstriction
it promotes vasoconstriction
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phlebotomy or venipuncture
it promotes vasoconstriction
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