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One who practiced phlebotomy.

To let blood from by opening a vein; to bleed. [R.] Howell.

The act or practice of opening a vein for letting blood, in the treatment of disease; venesection; bloodletting.

Of or pertaining to photomagnetism.

The branch of science which treats of the relation of magnetism to light.

Pertaining to, or designating, any photographic process in which a printing surface is obtained without the intervention of hand engraving.

An instrument for measuring the intensity of light, or, more especially, for comparing the relative intensities of different lights, or their relative illuminating power.

Of or pertaining to photometry, or to a photometer.

One engaged in the scientific measurement of light.

A specialist in photometry.

That branch of science which treats of the measurement of the intensity of light.

A photomechanical process similar to collotype.

An enlarged or macroscopic photograph of a microscopic object. See Microphotograph.

The art of producing photomicrographs.

Any bat of the genus Phyllostoma, or allied genera, having large membranes around the mouth and nose; a nose-leaf bat.

A phyllostome.

An order of fishes in which the air bladder is provided with a duct, and the ventral fins, when present, are abdominal. It includes the salmons, herrings, carps, catfishes, and others.

Pertaining to the Physostomi.

An organic element of a flowering plant; a phyton.

One versed in phytotomy.