apheresis

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He described apheresis, the process through which blood is drawn and separated, a component part is collected and the rest is returned to the donor through the same needle.

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  1. noun Linguistics Variant of aphaeresis.
  2. noun Medicine A procedure in which blood is drawn from a donor and separated into its components, some of which are retained, such as plasma or platelets, and the remainder returned by transfusion to the donor. Also called hemapheresis.

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  • Barnes, who now works as a nurse case manager, used to donate whole blood and now donates blood platelets through apheresis. —  tennessean.com - Top News from The Tennessean, MUSIC CITY U.S.A
  • Platelet apheresis is the process of drawing whole blood from a donor, separating the blood into its components, keeping the platelets and then returning the remaining blood components to the donor. —  tennessean.com - Top News from The Tennessean, MUSIC CITY U.S.A
  • Platelet apheresis is available at the Heart of Tennessee Chapter in Murfreesboro and the Nashville Blood Center. —  tennessean.com - Top News from The Tennessean, MUSIC CITY U.S.A
  • The double-dose platelet processing set facilitates economical treatment and storage of double-dose platelet collections, which are estimated to account for approximately half of European apheresis platelet collections, and for the majority (60 - 100\%) of apheresis collections in key markets such as Germany, UK, Ireland, Switzerland and the United States.
  • The team's five points of life are: donate whole blood and blood platelets, apheresis, bone marrow, umbilical cord blood or organs and tissue. —  news | LD | http://www.the-dispatch.com
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