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Syllable division and stress derived from spelling — this word is not in the pronouncing dictionary, so no phonetic transcription is shown rather than a guessed one.
plateletpheresis is a noun meaning "platelets are separated from whole blood and the rest is returned to the donor". It carries one recorded sense.
platelets are separated from whole blood and the rest is returned to the donor
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for plateletpheresis come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.