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

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

Hemat- is a variant of hemato-, which loses its -o– when combined with words or word elements beginning with vowels. The spelling haemat- is chiefly used in British English.

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Hemat-, hemato-, and haemat- are some of the many variants of the combining form hemo–. Another is hema-.

As with haemat-, all of these combining forms are often spelled with an additional a in British English, as in haemo-, haema-, and haemato-. Historically, these forms have been spelled with a ligature of the a and e, as in �������-.

Also closely related to hemat- 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 hemat- is hematoma, “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, hemat-, means “blood.” The suffix -oma is used to name tumors or other abnormal growth. So, a hematoma has a literal sense of “abnormal swelling of blood.”

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

• hematal
• hematic
• hematein
• hematemesis
• hematencephalon
• hematin
• hematite (using the equivalent form of hemat- in Greek)
• hematoid

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

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

The suffix -oid means “resembling, like.” With that in mind, what does hematoid ���𲹲�?����