apheresis
Elision, suppression, or complete loss of a letter or sound from the beginning of a…Elision, suppression, or complete loss of a letter or sound (syllable) from the beginning of a word, such as the development of special from especial.
Meaning
3 senses(Canada, US, countable, rhetoric, uncountable)Elision, suppression, or complete loss of a letter or sound (syllable) from the beginning of a word, such as the development of special from especial.
Aphärese, Aphäresis
афере́зaferéz
(Canada, US, countable, specific, uncountable)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).
Apherese
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
(Canada, US, countable, general, obsolete, uncountable)Extirpation or extraction of a superfluity (especially a pathological one) from the body, especially blood.
Translations
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Origin
From Latin aphaeresis, from Ancient Greek ἀφαίρεσις (aphaíresis, “a taking away”), from ἀφFrom Latin aphaeresis, from Ancient Greek ἀφαίρεσις (aphaíresis, “a taking away”), from ἀφαιρέω (aphairéō) (from ἀφ- (aph-), variant of ἀπό (apó, “off, away from”) before an aspirated vowel) + αἱρέω (hairéō, “to take; to snatch”)) + -σις (-sis, suffix forming nouns of action); the grammatical sense developed in Latin.
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Forms
plural: apheresesSynonyms
4 synonyms- 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:pheresis
- (linguistics) omission at the beginning of a word as in ‘coon’ for ‘raccoon’ or ‘till’ for ‘until’:aphaeresis
Word family
10 related wordsLessons for this word
1 lessons- A1Countable and uncountable nouns — Because it can be uncountable