APHERESIS

Apheresis

Apheresis 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.

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apheresis

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  1. <ref name="OED"/> Elision, suppression, or complete loss of a letter or sound (syllable) from the beginning of a word, such as the development of  from ; procope.<ref name="OED"/>
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  2. 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).
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  3. <ref name="OED"/> Extirpation or extraction of a superfluity (especially a pathological one) from the body, especially blood.
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