haemato-

alternative hæmat- · alternative haemat- · alternative hæmato- · alternative hemat- · alternative hemato-

1. blood

   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

   2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage 2007, p. 801: [compare -phage]

   Synonyms: haem-, hæm-, haemo-, hæmo-, hem-, hemo-