It means extracting, removing, subtracting, subtracting, suppressing or amputating. It is a word of Greek origin. In medicine it is the subtraction of one of the components of a fluid (for example extracting platelets from the blood). In linguistics it is the suppression of one or more letters in a word. Cropped word .
1º_ Loss of one or more sounds at the beginning of a word, as a linguistic resource or by the evolution of the language itself. It has Greek origin in the verb 945; 966; 945; 953; 961; 949; 953; 957; (aphairein "subtract, subtract") . 2º_ In biochemistry it is the separation and extraction of some component in a substance. It is especially used in hemotherapy.
