apheresis

  1. 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.
  2. 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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