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Pheresis vs Dialysis - What's the difference?

pheresis | dialysis |

As nouns the difference between pheresis and dialysis

is that pheresis is apheresis while dialysis is (chemistry) a method of separating molecules or particles of different sizes by differential diffusion through a semipermeable membrane.

pheresis

English

Noun

(wikipedia pheresis) (phereses)
  • apheresis

    • Anagrams

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    dialysis

    English

    Noun

    (dialyses)
  • (chemistry) A method of separating molecules or particles of different sizes by differential diffusion through a semipermeable membrane.
  • (medicine) Haemodialysis.
  • *{{quote-magazine, title=A better waterworks, date=2013-06-01, volume=407, issue=8838
    • , page=5 (Technology Quarterly), magazine=(The Economist) 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.}}
  • (rhetoric) The spelling out of alternatives, or presenting of either-or arguments that lead to a conclusion.
  • (rhetoric) Asyndeton.

    • Derived terms

    * dialytic * dialytically * dialyze

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