apheresis

Thân thiện

A patient undergoes apheresis at a blood donation center.

Definition

1. Noun (Medical):

   • A medical procedure in which blood is withdrawn from a donor or patient, separated into its components (such as plasma, platelets, or white blood cells), a specific component is retained, and the remaining blood is returned to the circulatory system.

2. Noun (Linguistics):

   • The omission of a sound, syllable, or letter at the beginning of a word, often as a form of historical language change or informal speech.

Usage Examples

• Noun (Medical):

  • The patient underwent apheresis to collect stem cells for the transplant.
  • Platelet apheresis is a common procedure for donors.

• Noun (Linguistics):

  • The word "squire" from "esquire" is an example of apheresis.
  • Apheresis explains the informal "cause" derived from "because".

Advanced Usage

• Therapeutic Apheresis: Refers to the use of the procedure to treat a disease by removing a harmful component from the blood.

  • Therapeutic apheresis is used to manage conditions like myasthenia gravis.

• Historical Linguistics: Used to describe a specific type of phonological change.

  • The apheresis of the initial vowel in "acute" led to the word "cute".

Variants and Related Words

• Apheretic (adj): Pertaining to or characterized by apheresis.
  • The apheretic form "phone" is now standard for "telephone".
• Apheresis Donor (n): A person who donates blood via an apheresis procedure.
• Lymphapheresis (n): A specific type of apheresis targeting lymphocytes.

Synonyms

• Medical: Pheresis, hemapheresis, cytapheresis (specific to cells).
• Linguistics: Initial omission, procope (a technical synonym).

Related Phrases

• Undergo apheresis: To have the medical procedure performed.
  • He will undergo apheresis next week.
• Result from apheresis: To originate from this linguistic process.
  • The shortened form resulted from apheresis over centuries.

Related Idioms

Học thuật

Noun

1. 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
2. (linguistics) omission at the beginning of a word as in `coon' for `raccoon' or `till' for `until'

Từ đồng nghĩa

• pheresis
• aphaeresis