Pheresis used in a sentence

Pheresis in a sentence as a noun

It's a minor surgery, and you can also donate without surgery via apheresis. In the case of surgery you're put under and they dig around in your hip bones.

Then, through a process called apheresis, a donor's blood is removed through a needle in one arm and passed through a machine that separates out the blood-forming cells. The remaining blood is returned to the donor through the other arm.

I donate platelets at the Red Cross which takes a couple hours, so they provide DVD players and a selection of movies to choose from while you are hooked up to the apheresis machine. I found they had a DVD of Yes' Symphonic tour from around 2001, and I felt like a real idiot because my eyes were seriously watering up during a lot of that concert.