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aphaeresis

aphaeresis is the alternative spelling 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 aphaeresis

pluralaphaereses

Questions about aphaeresis

What is aphaeresis the alternative spelling of?
Aphaeresis is the alternative spelling of apheresis.

Words near aphaeresis in the dictionary

  1. APHA
  2. aphacia
  3. aphacias
  4. aphacic
  5. aphaereses
  6. aphaeresis
  7. aphaeretic
  8. aphagia
  9. aphagias
  10. aphagic
  11. aphagopraxia

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Adapted from Wiktionary: aphaeresis (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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