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: chemical analysis: the act of decomposing a substance into its constituent elements → 1
Candidate hypernym: air attache: a military attache who is a commissioned or warrant officer in an air force → 0
Candidate hypernym: kenyan shilling: the basic unit of money in Kenya; equal to 100 cents → 0
Candidate hypernym: benchmark: a surveyor's mark on a permanent object of predetermined position and elevation used as a reference point → 0
Candidate hypernym: compound: (chemistry) a substance formed by chemical union of two or more elements or ingredients in definite proportion by weight → 0
Candidate hypernym: sauk: a member of the Algonquian people formerly living in Wisconsin in the Fox River valley and on the shores of Green Bay → 0
Candidate hypernym: boy scouts of america: a corporation that operates through a national council that charters local councils all over the United States; the purpose is character building and citizenship training → 0
Candidate hypernym: synesthetic metaphor: a metaphor that exploits a similarity between experiences in different sense modalities → 0
Candidate hypernym: mouth: a person conceived as a consumer of food → 0
Candidate hypernym: lead-in: wire connecting an antenna to a receiver or a transmitter to a transmission line → 0
Candidate hypernym: tennis coach: a coach of tennis players → 0