Apheresis is a coordinate term of apocope.
As nouns the difference between apocope and apheresis
is that apocope is the loss or omission of a sound or syllable from the end of a word while 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.
apocope
English
(wikipedia)
Noun
(
en noun)
(prosody) The loss or omission of a sound or syllable from the end of a word.
Related terms
* apocopate
* apocopation
* apocopic
Coordinate terms
* aphaeresis (omission of a sound to the beginning of a word)
* paragoge (addition of a sound to the end of a word)
* syncope (omission of a sound from the middle of a word)
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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
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References
