Associations to the word «Apheresis»

APHERESIS, noun. (linguistics) (prosody) Elision, suppression, or complete loss of a letter or sound (syllable) from the beginning of a word, such as the development of from ; procope.

APHERESIS, noun. (medicine) (specific) (still current) 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).

APHERESIS, noun. (medicine) (general) (obsolete) Extirpation or extraction of a superfluity (especially a pathological one) from the body, especially blood.

APHERESIS, noun. (linguistics) omission at the beginning of a word as in `coon' for `raccoon' or `till' for `until'.

APHERESIS, noun. 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.