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