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n. - (linguistics) omission at the beginning of a word as in `coon' for `raccoon' or `till' for `until'.

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  • The patient used 5-6 units of aphaeresis products each day.
  • This, by an aphaeresis of tau and an epenthesis of omicron in two places, may be identified with echonoe, and signifies
  • We are on track to begin three more Mipomersen studies this year and aphaeresis-eligible patient study, as well as two studies in high risk patient population.
  • That aside is vintage Espy, vintage cute -- in the old sense of acute, as W.R. E. reminds us in discussing aphaeresis, the "loss of an initial letter or syllable."
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