Apheresis

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. Linguistics Variant of aphaeresis.
  • n. Medicine A procedure in which blood is drawn from a donor and separated into its components, some of which are retained, such as plasma or platelets, and the remainder returned by transfusion to the donor. Also called hemapheresis.
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  • n. The removal of blood from a patient, and the removal of certain components (such as platelets) from that blood, followed by the transfusion of the filtered blood back to the donor (patient).
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. The dropping of a letter or syllable from the beginning of a word; e. g., cute for acute.
  • n. An operation by which any part is separated from the rest.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. In grammar, the omission of a letter or an unaccented syllable from the beginning of a word.
  • n. In med.: The removal of anything noxious. Large and injurious extraction of blood.
  • n. In surgery, amputation.
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  • n. a procedure in which blood is drawn and separated into its components by dialysis; some are retained and the rest are returned to the donor by transfusion
  • n. (linguistics) omission at the beginning of a word as in `coon' for `raccoon' or `till' for `until'
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