erythrapheresis etymology

English word erythrapheresis comes from English erythro-, English apheresis

Detailed word origin of erythrapheresis

Dictionary entryLanguageDefinition
erythro- English (eng) Used to form scientific terms meaning red, or showing a relationship to red blood cells.
apheresis English (eng) (linguistics, prosody) Elision, suppression, or complete loss of a letter or sound (syllable) from the beginning of a word, such as the development of special from especial; procope.. (medicine, general, obsolete) Extirpation or extraction of a superfluity (especially a pathological one) from the body, especially blood.. (medicine, specific, still current) The removal of blood from a [...]
erythrapheresis English (eng) (medicine) Erythrocytapheresis.

Words with the same origin as erythrapheresis

Descendants of erythro-
azaerythromycin erythrismal erythroagglutinin erythroblast erythroblastopenia erythroblastosis erythrodegenerative erythrofuranose erythrogenic erythrogranulose erythroid erythroid aplasia erythroleukemia erythrolytic erythromycin erythromyeloid erythrophagocytosis erythropheresis erythrophobia erythrophyll erythropsia erythruria oxoerythromycin proerythroblast
Descendants of apheresis
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