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Medical term Routine Blood Collections

A transilluminator or similar device that lights up veins under the skin to help locate a hard-to-find vein.

Sources

• How To Do Venous Blood Sampling (Merck Manual Professional Edition, procedure page) · Merck & Co., Inc. (Merck Manuals)
• Clinical Nursing Skills, 10.4 Blood Sampling (facts checked only; wording not used) · OpenStax
• WHO Guidelines on Drawing Blood: Best Practices in Phlebotomy (2010); official WHO IRIS PDF (also NCBI Bookshelf NBK138650) · World Health Organization

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