apheresis
- Noun. (medicine) The removal of blood from a patient in order that certain components (such as platelets) may be removed before transfusion back to the donor.
- Noun. (linguistics, prosody) The loss of letters or sounds from the beginning of a word, such as the development of (term, ) from (term, ) .
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