Apheresis
Medical techniques to separate one or more components of blood / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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For the linguistic term, see Apheresis (linguistics).
"Pheresis" redirects here. Not to be confused with Phoresis.
Apheresis (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 constituent and returns the remainder to the circulation. It is thus an extracorporeal therapy.
One of the uses of apheresis is for collecting stem cells.[1]