apheresis, pheresis
(noun) 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
aphaeresis, apheresis
(noun) (linguistics) omission at the beginning of a word as in ‘coon’ for ‘raccoon’ or ‘till’ for ‘until’
Source: WordNet® 3.1
apheresis (countable and uncountable, plural aphereses) (US)
(linguistics, prosody) Elision, suppression, or complete loss of a letter or sound (syllable) from the beginning of a word, such as the development of special from especial; procope.
Synonyms: pheresis, procope
Hyponym: aphesis
Coordinate term: syncope
(medicine, specific, still current) The removal of blood from a patient, and the removal of certain components (such as platelets) from that blood, followed by the transfusion of the filtered blood back to the donor (patient).
Synonyms: pheresis, hemapheresis
(medicine, general, obsolete) Extirpation or extraction of a superfluity (especially a pathological one) from the body, especially blood.
• Pharisees
Source: Wiktionary
A*pher"e*sis, n. Etym: [L. aphaeresis, Gr.
1. (Gram.)
Definition: The dropping of a letter or syllable from the beginning of a word; e. g., cute for acute.
2. (Surg.)
Definition: An operation by which any part is separated from the rest. [Obs.] Dunglison.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
26 June 2024
(verb) include or contain; have as a component; “A totally new idea is comprised in this paper”; “The record contains many old songs from the 1930’s”
The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.
