Noun: apheresis u'fe-ri-sis
- (linguistics) omission at the beginning of a word as in 'coon' for 'raccoon' or 'till' for 'until'
"The word 'phone' is an example of apheresis from 'telephone'";
- aphaeresis
- 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
"The patient underwent apheresis to collect stem cells for transplantation";
- pheresis
Type of: deletion, dialysis, omission
Encyclopedia: Apheresis