Look up: apheresis

1. apheresis
   [n] - a procedure in which blood is drawn and separated into its components by dialysis
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2. Apheresis
   Apheresis: The process of removing a specific component from blood and returning the remaining components to the donor, in order to collect more of one particular part of the blood than could be separated from a unit of whole blood. Also called hemapheresis or pheresis. The forms of apheresis includ...
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3. Apheresis
   A·pher'e·sis noun [ Latin aphaeresis , Greek ..., from ... to take away; ... + ... to take.] 1. (Gram.) The dropping of a letter or syllable from the beginning of a word; e. g ., cute for a cute. 2. (Sur...
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4. apheresis
   <haematology, procedure> A technique in which blood products are separated from a donor and the desired elements collected and the rest returned to the donor. ... This has the advantage of specificity and a good harvest, for example a good platelet collection may be obtained from two or three ...
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5. 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
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6. apheresis
   (af-ә-re´sis) any procedure in which blood is withdrawn from a donor, a portion (such as plasma, leukocytes, or platelets) is separated and retained, and the remainder is retransfused into the donor. Types include erythrocytapheresis, leukapheresis, lymphocytapheresis, plasmapheresis, and plateletpheresis. Called ...
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7. Apheresis
   • (n.) An operation by which any part is separated from the rest. • (n.) The dropping of a letter or syllable from the beginning of a word; e. g., cute for acute.
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8. apheresis
   (from the article `blood bank`) Despite such replacement programs, many blood banks face continual problems in obtaining sufficient donations. The chronic shortage of donors has ...
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9. apheresis
   apheresis 1. The process of removing a specific component from blood and returning the remaining components to the donor, in order to collect more of one particular part of the blood than could be separated from a unit of whole blood. Apheresis takes longer than a whole blood donation. A whole bloo...
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10. apheresis
    Type: Term Pronunciation: ā-fer-ē′sis Definitions: 1. Infusion of a patient's own blood from which certain cellular or fluid elements (plasma, leukocytes, or platelets) have been removed.
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11. apheresis
    apheresis (ufer'usis) , or hemapheresis (hē"mufer'usis) , any procedure in which blood is drawn from a donor or patient and a component (platelets, plasma, or white blood cells) is separated out, the remaining blood components being returned to the body. Apheresis allows the donor'...
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12. apheresis
    A procedure in which blood is collected, part of the blood such as platelets or white blood cells is taken out, and the rest of the blood is returned to the donor. Also called pheresis.
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13. Apheresis
    `Apheresis` (plural `aphereses`; also spelled `aphaeresis`, `aphæresis`; from Ancient Greek ἀφαίρεσις (aphairesis, “a taking away”)) is a medical technology in which the blood of a donor or patient is passed through an apparatus tha...
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14. Apheresis
    (linguistics) In /əˈfɪərɨsɪs/-->, from Greek language|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. Apheresis as a historical sound change: In historical phonetics,...
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