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Haemat- is a combining form used like a prefix meaning “blood.” It is used in many medical terms, especially in pathology.

Haemat- comes from the Greek ��î����, meaning “blood.”

Chiefly used in British English, haemat- is a variant of hemat-, itself a variant of hemato- before a vowel. Hemato- is another form of hemo-.

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Historically, haemat- has been written as �������-, featuring a ligature of the a and e.

Other variants of haemat- used like hemo- are hem- and hema-. As with haemat-, all of these combining forms are often spelled with an additional a in British English, as in haem-, haema-, haemo-, and haemato-.

Also closely related to haemat- are -aemia, -emia, -haemia, and -hemia, which are combined to the ends of words to denote blood conditions.

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One example of a medical term you may have encountered that features the combining form haemat- is haematoma, “a circumscribed collection of blood, usually clotted, in a tissue or organ, caused by a break in a blood vessel.”

The first part of the word, haemat-, means “blood.” The suffix -oma is used to name tumors or other abnormal growth. So, a haematoma has a literal sense of “abnormal swelling of blood.”

What are some words that use the combining form haemat-?

• haematein
• haematemesis
• haematic
• haematin
• haematosis

What are some other forms that haemat- may be commonly confused with?

• chaeto-
• chemi–
• chemo-
• chromat-
• hemangio-
• hemi-
• homo-
• homeo-
• stomat-

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