aférese

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Portuguese

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Etymology

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  • Hyphenation: a‧fé‧re‧se

Noun

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aférese f (plural aféreses)

  1. (phonetics, prosody) apheresis (loss of letters or sounds from the beginning of a word)
  2. (medicine) apheresis (removal, filtering and returning of blood)