APHERESIS
- a medical technology in which the blood of a donor or patient is passed through an apparatus that separates out one particular constituent and returns the remainder to the circulation [n APHERESES] : APHERETIC [adj]
- the omission of a letter, sound or syllable at the beginning of a word, eg as k-nife becoming nife also APHAERESIS [n APHERESES]
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