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Definition apheresis

Etymology

From Latin aphaeresis, from Ancient Greek ????????? (aphaíresis, “a taking away”), from ??????? (aphairé?) (from ??- (aph-), variant of ??? (apó, “off, away from”) before an aspirated vowel) + ????? (hairé?, “to take; to snatch”)) + -??? (-sis, suffix forming nouns of action); the grammatical sense developed in Latin.

Noun

apheresis (countable and uncountable, plural aphereses) (US, Canada)

1. (linguistics, prosody) 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; procope.
2. (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).
3. (medicine, general, obsolete) Extirpation or extraction of a superfluity (especially a pathological one) from the body, especially blood.

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