word-forming element meaning "blood," perhaps via Old French hemo-, Latin haemo-, from Greek haimo-, from haima "blood" (see -emia).
hemo- or hema- or hem- or haemo- or haema- or haem-
pref.
Blood: hemocyte.
hemo- or hemato- A prefix meaning "blood," as in hemophilia, a disorder in which blood fails to clot, or hematology, the scientific study of blood. |