Apheresis vs Dialysis - What's the difference?
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(linguistics, prosody) Elision, suppression, or complete loss of a letter or sound (syllable) from the beginning of a word, such as the development of (term) from (term); procope.
(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).
(medicine, general, obsolete) Extirpation or extraction of a superfluity (especially a pathological one) from the body, especially blood.
(chemistry) A method of separating molecules or particles of different sizes by differential diffusion through a semipermeable membrane.
(medicine) Haemodialysis.
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(rhetoric) The spelling out of alternatives, or presenting of either-or arguments that lead to a conclusion.
(rhetoric) Asyndeton.
As nouns the difference between apheresis and dialysis
is that apheresis is elision, suppression, or complete loss of a letter or sound (syllable) from the beginning of a word, such as the development of {{term||special}} from {{term||especial}}; procope while dialysis is a method of separating molecules or particles of different sizes by differential diffusion through a semipermeable membrane.apheresis
English
Alternative forms
* aphaeresis (qualifier) * (archaic)Noun
(aphereses) (qualifier)Synonyms
* (medicine) pheresis, hemapheresis * (linguistics) prosiopesisHyponyms
* aphesisCoordinate terms
* (linguistics) syncope, apocopeDerived terms
* aphaeretic, aphereticAnagrams
*References
dialysis
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Noun
(dialyses)citation, passage=An artificial kidney these days still means a refrigerator-sized dialysis machine. Such devices mimic the way real kidneys cleanse blood and eject impurities and surplus water as urine.}}
