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apheresis | p |

As a noun apheresis

is (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.

As a letter p is

the sixteenth letter of the.

As a symbol p is

symbol for phosphorus.

apheresis

English

Alternative forms

* aphaeresis (qualifier) * (archaic)

Noun

(aphereses) (qualifier)
  • (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.

    • Synonyms

    * (medicine) pheresis, hemapheresis * (linguistics) prosiopesis

    Hyponyms

    * aphesis

    Coordinate terms

    * (linguistics) syncope, apocope

    Derived terms

    * aphaeretic, apheretic

    Anagrams

    *

    References

    p

    Translingual

    {{Basic Latin character info, previous=o, next=q, image= (wikipedia p)

    Letter

  • The sixteenth letter of the .

    • See also

    (Latn-script) * With hook: * (wynn) {{Letter , page=P , NATO=Papa , Morse=·––· , Character=P , Braille=? }} Image:Latin P.png, Capital and lowercase versions of P , in normal and italic type Image:Fraktur letter P.png, Uppercase and lowercase P in Fraktur

    Symbol

    (Voiceless bilabial plosive) (head)
  • voiceless bilabial plosive
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