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Meaning of apheresis

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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:

  apheresis
      n 1: (linguistics) omission at the beginning of a word as in
           `coon' for `raccoon' or `till' for `until' [syn:
           {aphaeresis}, {apheresis}]
      2: 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 [syn: {apheresis},
         {pheresis}]

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