Editing Apheresis (section)

{{Short description|Medical techniques to separate one or more components of blood}}
{{About||the linguistic term|Apheresis (linguistics)}}
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  Name        = Apheresis |
  Image       = Image:Apheresis.svg |
  Caption     = Whole blood enters the centrifuge (1) and separates into plasma (2), leukocytes (3), and erythrocytes (4). Selected components are then drawn off (5). |
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  MeshID      = D016238 |
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'''Apheresis''' ([[wikt:ἀφαίρεσις|ἀφαίρεσις]] (''aphairesis'', "a taking away")) is a [[medical technology]] in which the [[blood]] of a person is passed through an apparatus that separates out one particular [[blood constituent|constituent]] and returns the remainder to the circulation.  It is thus an [[extracorporeal]] therapy.

One of the uses of apheresis is for collecting [[hematopoetic stem cells]].<ref>{{Cite book|title=Official CPC Certification Study Guide|last=Katherine|first=Abel|publisher=Delmar Cengage Learning |isbn=978-1-285-42799-7 |oclc=1073648099 |author2=American Academy of Professional Coders |year=2013|pages=128}}</ref>
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