pheresis

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Etymology

In medicine, perhaps a back-formation from compounds such as plasmapheresis. The linguistics term may be a self-referential pun as with haplogy for haplology.

Pronunciation

  • (US) IPA(key): /fəˈɹisɪs/ (medicine)

Noun

pheresis (countable and uncountable, plural phereses)

  1. (medicine, linguistics) Synonym of apheresis. (Can we verify(+) this sense?)

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