Pheresis

Definition: Pheresis

Pheresis

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.

Domain	Definitions
Health	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 apheresis. (references)
Medicine	Components being separated out, as leukapheresis, plasmapheresis, plateletpheresis. Source: European Union. (references)
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Synonym: Pheresis

Synonym: apheresis (n). (additional references)

Crosswords: Pheresis

Specialty definitions using "pheresis": PHERESIS SPECIALIST. (references)

Domain	Title
Books	Fundamentals of a pheresis program : a technical workshop (reference) (more book examples)
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The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Language		Translations for "pheresis"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Danish		Aferese Sundhedstyrelsens Lægemiddelkontrol (apheresis, haemapheresis, hemapheresis). (various references)

German		Apherese (apheresis, haemapheresis, hemapheresis). (various references)

Pig Latin		eresisphay
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words ending with "pheresis": apheresis, plasmapheresis. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Direct Anagrams: perishes.
	Words within the letters "e-e-h-i-p-r-s-s"
	-1 letter: heiress, reships, spheres.
	-2 letters: espies, herpes, hisser, peises, perish, perses, pishes, pisser, prises, reshes, reship, seiser, series, sheers, shiers, shires, sirees, speers, speirs, speise, sphere, spiers, spires, sprees.
	-3 letters: erses, heirs, heres, hires, peers, peise, peris, perse, piers, prees, prese, press, pries, prise, priss, ripes, rises, seeps, seers, seise, seres, sheep, sheer, shier.
	Words containing the letters "e-e-h-i-p-r-s-s"
	+1 letter: apheresis, inspheres, pharisees, phrensies, spheriest.
	+2 letters: aphaeresis, biospheres, elderships, euphrasies, prophesies, reemphasis, repolishes, whisperers.
	+3 letters: dealerships, diaphoreses, epistrophes, externships, hemispheres, herpesvirus, hesperidins, interphases, ionospheres, leaderships, memberships, mesospheric, parenthesis, paresthesia, periphrases, perishables, preachiness, prehensions, premonishes, prophesiers, readerships, replenishes, republishes, schipperkes, speakership, spearfished, spearfishes, sphalerites, spherulites, spirochetes, therapeusis, trusteeship, viewerships.
	+4 letters: emperorships, generalships, hyperkineses, hyperkinesis, hypermnesias, hypodermises, impoverishes, lectureships, listenership, lithospheres, mesomorphies, microspheres, overemphasis, paraesthesia, paresthesias, planispheres, preestablish, prehistories, premierships, reemphasizes, replenishers, republishers, rhizospheres, serigraphers, serigraphies, sheepberries, speakerships, spermophiles, sphericities, spirochaetes, superbitches, superhelices, superhelixes, traineeships, trusteeships, upholsteries.
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