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Examples of aphaeresis
aphaeresis
Patients underwent aphaeresis to harvest blood lymphocytes that were then frozen.
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Aphaeresis was used to harvest blood stem cells from 21 metastatic breast cancer patients before transplantation.
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Fore-clipping or aphaeresis retains the final part.
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Elision is the loss of unstressed sounds, aphaeresis the loss of initial sounds, syncope is the loss of medial sounds, and apocope is the loss of final sounds.
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- (linguistics) omission at the beginning of a word as in `coon' for `raccoon' or `till' for `until'
- Apheresis (u1F00u03C6u03B1u03AFu03C1u03B5u03C3u03B9u03C2 (aphairesis, u201Ca taking awayu201D)) is a medical technology in which the blood of a donor or patient is passed through an apparatus that separates out one particular constituent and returns the remainder to the circulation. It is thus an extracorporeal therapy.
- In phonetics, apheresis (aphaeresis; or , from Greek apo away, hairein to take) is the loss of one or more sounds from the beginning of a word, especially the loss of an unstressed vowel.
- Alternative spelling of apheresis
- Loss of the initial portion of a word. For example, cause from because; specially from especially. See also: apocope.
- Loss of the initial unstressed syllable from a word to create a new word: "mid" from "amid", "tween" from "between".
- N. cutting off beginning of word.
