See Also: apheresis(medicine)
Apheresis(health)

Gaborone (sh) and Apheresis (health)


Gaborone (sh)




formerly (until 1969) Gaberones

City (pop., 2001 prelim.: 185,891), capital of Botswana.

It is located in southeastern Botswana near the border with South Africa. The seat of government was transferred there from Mafikeng, S.Af., in 1965, one year before Botswana became independent of Britain. Gaborone is on the Cape-Zimbabwe railway and is the site of government offices, parliament buildings, Health facilities, a thermal power station, and an airport. It is the seat of the University of Botswana (1976) and also has a national museum and Art gallery (1968).


Apheresis (health)


The process of removing a specific component from blood and returning the remaining components to the donor, in order to collect more of one particular part of the blood than could be separated from a unit of whole blood. Also called hemapheresis or pheresis.