APHERESIS as NOUN

1. Meaning
   • 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
   Synonym(s)
   • pheresis (what does pheresis mean?)
   Hypernyms(s) apheresis is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower
   • dialysis (what does dialysis mean?)
   Hyponym(s)
   • plasmapheresis (what does plasmapheresis mean?)
   • plateletpheresis (what does plateletpheresis mean?)
2. Meaning
   • (linguistics) omission at the beginning of a word as in `coon” for `raccoon” or `till” for `until”
   Synonym(s)
   • aphaeresis (what does aphaeresis mean?)
   Hypernyms(s) apheresis is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower
   • omission (what does omission mean?)
   • deletion (what does deletion mean?)