different between apheresis vs hemodialysis

English

Alternative forms

• aphaeresis (British, Canada)
• aphæresis (archaic)

Etymology

From Latin aphaeresis, from Ancient Greek ????????? (aphaíresis, “a taking away”), from ??????? (aphairé?) (from ??- (aph-), variant of ??? (apó, “off, away from”) before an aspirated vowel) + ????? (hairé?, “to take; to snatch”)) + -??? (-sis, suffix forming nouns of action); the grammatical sense developed in Latin.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: ?fî?r?s?s, IPA^(key): /??f????s?s/,
• (US) IPA^(key): /??f???s?s/ (linguistics)
• (US) IPA^(key): /?æf???is?s/ (medicine)

Noun

apheresis (countable and uncountable, plural aphereses) (US, Canada)

1. (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 terms: syncope, apocope

2. (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

3. (medicine, general, obsolete) Extirpation or extraction of a superfluity (especially a pathological one) from the body, especially blood.

Derived terms

• aphaeretic, apheretic

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References

Further reading

• Apheresis on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Apheresis (linguistics) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Pharisees

English

Alternative forms

• haemodialysis

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ????- (haimo-, “blood”) +? ???????? (diálusis, “separation, dissolution”), from ?????? (dialú?, “I separate”), from ??? (diá, “through”) +? ??? (lú?, “I loose”). Synchronically, hemo- +? dialysis.

Noun

hemodialysis (countable and uncountable, plural hemodialyses)

1. (medicine) A dialysis utilizing extracorporeal removal of waste products from the blood in the case of kidney failure.

Related terms

• hemodialysate
• hemodialyse
• peritoneal dialysis

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