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APHERE'SIS, n. [Gr. from, and to take.]

1. The taking of a litter or syllable from the beginning of a word. Thus by an apheresis, omittere is writter, mittere.

2. In the healing art, the removal of any thing noxious. In surgery, amputation.

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