apheresis
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English
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]- aphaeresis (UK, Canada)
- aphæresis (chiefly archaic)
Etymology
[edit]From Latin aphaeresis, from Ancient Greek ἀφαίρεσις (aphaíresis, “a taking away”), from ἀφαιρέω (aphairéō) (from ἀφ- (aph-), variant of ἀπό (apó, “off, away from”) before an aspirated vowel) αἱρέω (hairéō, “to take; to snatch”)) -σις (-sis, suffix forming nouns of action); the grammatical sense developed in Latin.[1]
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Received Pronunciation) enPR: əfîʹrĭsĭs, IPA(key): /əˈfɪəɹɪsɪs/,[1]
- (US) IPA(key): /əˈfɛɹəsɪs/ (linguistics)
- (US) IPA(key): /ˌæfəˈɹisɪs/ (medicine)
Noun
[edit]apheresis (countable and uncountable, plural aphereses) (US, Canada)
- (phonetics, 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.[1]
- (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).
- Synonyms: pheresis, hemapheresis
- Coordinate term: plasmapheresis
- (medicine, general, obsolete) Extirpation or extraction of a superfluity (especially a pathological one) from the body, especially blood.
- Hyponym: bloodletting
Derived terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]loss of letters or sounds from the beginning of a word
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medicine: removal, filtering and returning of blood
References
[edit]Further reading
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Apheresis on Wikipedia.Wikipedia - Apheresis (linguistics) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
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