Etymology

plasmapheresis

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Today it means: A procedure in which whole blood is removed from a donor or patient and centrifuged to isolate blood cells that are resuspended in a compatible solution and re-injected into the donor or patient. Full definition →

New Latin plasma ← Ancient Greek ἀφαίρεσις
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The story

  1. Ancient Greek · derived fromἀφαίρεσις“removal”
  2. New Latin · derived fromplasma
  3. English todayplasmapheresis

From New Latin plasma + Ancient Greek ἀφαίρεσις (aphaíresis, “removal”).

Words from the same roots

Ancient Greekἀφαίρεσις all →

apheresis

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.