aférese

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Portuguese

Etymology

 

  • Hyphenation: a‧fé‧re‧se

Noun

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)