Term: apheresis: a procedure in which blood is drawn and separated into its components by dialysis; some are retained and the rest are returned to the donor by transfusion
Candidate hypernym: abstraction: a general concept formed by extracting common features from specific examples → 1
Candidate hypernym: irish pound: formerly the basic unit of money in Ireland; equal to 100 pence → 0
Candidate hypernym: small person: a person of below average size → 0
Candidate hypernym: nurturance: physical and emotional care and nourishment → 0
Candidate hypernym: lysogeny: the condition of a host bacterium that has incorporated a phage into its own genetic material → 0
Candidate hypernym: tarpaulin: waterproofed canvas → 0
Candidate hypernym: ranunculus: annual, biennial or perennial herbs: buttercup; crowfoot → 0
Candidate hypernym: national park: a tract of land declared by the national government to be public property → 0
Candidate hypernym: tone: the quality of something (an act or a piece of writing) that reveals the attitudes and presuppositions of the author → 0
Candidate hypernym: shakedown: extortion of money (as by blackmail) → 0
Candidate hypernym: manifold: a set of points such as those of a closed surface or an analogue in three or more dimensions → 0