pheresis

== English == === Etymology === In medicine, perhaps a back-formation from compounds such as plasmapheresis. The linguistics term may be a self-referential pun as with haplogy for haplology. === Pronunciation === (US) IPA(key): /fəˈɹisɪs/ (medicine) === Noun === pheresis (countable and uncountable, plural phereses) (medicine, linguistics) Synonym of apheresis. (Can we verify(+) this sense?) ==== Derived terms ==== === Further reading === apheresis on Wikipedia.Wikipedia === Anagrams === perishes, seership, spherise, spreeish