The difference between Apheresis and Aphesis
When used as nouns, apheresis means elision, suppression, or complete loss of a letter or sound (syllable) from the beginning of a word, such as the development of from, whereas aphesis means the loss of the initial unstressed vowel of a word.
check bellow for the other definitions of Apheresis and Aphesis
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Apheresis as a noun (linguistics, prosody):
Elision, suppression, or complete loss of a letter or sound (syllable) from the beginning of a word, such as the development of from ; procope.
Examples:
"synonyms: pheresis procope"
"hypo aphesis"
"coordinate terms syncope"
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Apheresis as a noun (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).
Examples:
"synonyms: pheresis hemapheresis"
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Apheresis as a noun (medicine, general, obsolete):
Extirpation or extraction of a superfluity (especially a pathological one) from the body, especially blood.
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Aphesis as a noun (linguistics, prosody):
The loss of the initial unstressed vowel of a word.
Examples:
"The word "scarp" is derived from "escarp" by aphesis."