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 .
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