apheresis

apheresis has 4 senses in the JumbleFix dictionary. Letters: 9.

Definitions

• n.. The dropping of a letter or syllable from the beginning of a word; e. g., cute for acute.
• n.. An operation by which any part is separated from the rest.
• n.. a procedure in which blood is drawn and separated into its components by dialysis; some are retained and the rest are returned to the donor by transfusion
• n.. (linguistics) omission at the beginning of a word as in `coon' for `raccoon' or `till' for `until'