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aphæresis

aphæresis is the alternative form of apheresis.

Meaning of apheresis

Noun

apheresis (countable and uncountable, plural aphereses)

  1. (Canada, US, 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.
    Synonyms:
    pheresis, procope
  2. (Canada, US, 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. (Canada, US, general, obsolete) Extirpation or extraction of a superfluity (especially a pathological one) from the body, especially blood.

Forms of aphæresis

pluralaphæreses

Questions about aphæresis

What is aphæresis the alternative form of?
Aphæresis is the alternative form of apheresis.

Words near aphæresis in the dictionary

  1. aphyonids
  2. aphyric
  3. aphysiologic
  4. aphysiological
  5. aphæreses
  6. aphæresis
  7. aphæretic
  8. API
  9. API donut
  10. API donuts
  11. API gravities

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Adapted from Wiktionary: aphæresis (page history and authors); apheresis (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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