apheresis
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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 (noun.act)
| hypernym | : | dialysis, |
| definition | : | separation of substances in solution by means of their unequal diffusion through semipermeable membranes (noun.act) |
| hyponym | : | plasmapheresis, |
| definition | : | plasma is separated from whole blood and the rest is returned to the donor (noun.act) |
| hyponym | : | plateletpheresis, |
| definition | : | platelets are separated from whole blood and the rest is returned to the donor (noun.act) |
2. (linguistics) omission at the beginning of a word as in `coon' for `raccoon' or `till' for `until' (noun.process)
| hypernym | : | deletion, omission, |
| definition | : | any process whereby sounds or words are left out of spoken words or phrases (noun.process) |
| domain category | : | linguistics, |
| definition | : | the scientific study of language (noun.cognition) |
3. 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 (noun.act)
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