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apheresis

/ apheresis /

noun

Definitions & Examples

noun Sense 1

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

Type of:

dialysis

Kinds of:

plasmapheresis plateletpheresis

noun Sense 2

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

Type of:

omission deletion

Domain:

linguistics

Semantic Complexity

87%

Sense Count

2

Total Synonyms

0

Total Relationships

5

Times Searched

1

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Related Words

dialysis plasmapheresis plateletpheresis omission deletion