Pheresis

//fəˈɹisɪs// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    Synonym of apheresis. countable, uncountable
  2. 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 wordnet

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apheresisapheresis

Etymology

In medicine, perhaps a back-formation from compounds such as plasmapheresis. The linguistics term may be a self-referential pun as with haplogy for haplology.

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