apheresis, n.
(aphereses)
(aphereses)
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
<noun.act>
apheresis pheresis
lexical pointers
derivationally related form
(linguistics) omission at the beginning of a word as in `coon' for `raccoon' or `till' for `until'
<noun.process>
aphaeresis apheresis
lexical pointers
derivationally related form
lexical pointers
derivationally related form