English

Alternative forms

• hæmato-
• hemato-

Prefix

haemato-

1. Forming compound words having the sense of ‘blood’.
   • 2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage 2007, p. 801: [compare -phage]

     Back in the late ’90s, when vampirism became fashionable owing to the international popularity of the novel Dracula [...] A subcircuit of the Buda-Pesth telephone exchange had apparently been reserved for the use of hæmatophages, as they were then known

Derived terms

Synonyms

• haem-
• hæm-
• haemo-
• hæmo-
• hem-
• hemo-