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2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Apheresis \A*pher"e*sis\ (?; 277), n. [L. aphaeresis, Gr ?, fr ? to take away ? + ? to take.] 1. (Gram.) The dropping of a letter or syllable from the beginning of a word e. g., cute for acute. 2. (Surg.) An operation by which any part is separated from the rest. [Obs.] --Dunglison. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: apheresis n 1: (linguistics) omission at the beginning of a word as in `coon' for `raccoon' or `till' for `until' [syn: {aphaeresis}] 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
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