pheresis

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points
13
Words With Friends
13
Letters
8
Pronunciation
/fəˈɹisɪs/(US)

Definition of pheresis

1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. (countable, uncountable)Synonym of apheresis.

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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.

Anagrams of pheresis

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