Apheresis

Quick meaning: Apheresis is a noun meaning (medicine, general, obsolete) Extirpation or extraction of a superfluity (especially a pathological one) from the body, especially blood.

Meaning

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

More Meanings

1. (phonetics, linguistics, prosody, rhetoric) 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.
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).

Word Forms

• aphereses
• aphaeresis

Synonyms for apheresis

Depending on context, synonyms include pheresis, procope, hemapheresis, aphaeresis.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include aphaeresis, elision, ecthlipsis, syneresis, synaeresis, omission.

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