The removal of blood from a patient, and the removal of certain components (such as platelets) from that blood, followed by the transfusion of the filtered blood back to the donor (patient).
Elision, suppression, or complete loss of a letter or sound (syllable) from the beginning of a word, such as the development of special from especial; procope.
The act of obtaining by separation, or as the result of eliminating; deduction.
The act of discharging or excreting waste products or foreign substances through the various emunctories.
The act of voting off or throwing off a contestant in a reality television competition.
The act of eliminating, expelling or throwing off.
The act of causing a quantity to disappear from an equation; especially, in the operation of deducing from several equations containing several unknown quantities a less number of equations containing a less number of unknown quantities.
The act of recording amounts in a consolidation statement to remove the effects of inter-company transactions.
The act of excluding a losing contestant from a match, tournament, or other competition.