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The study of blood: your body's red-collar workforce and its labor disputes.
means The branch of medicine devoted to blood, its cells, and the disorders that disrupt them — from anemia to clotting problems to leukemia.
from Built from Greek 'haima' (blood) plus '-logy' (study of, from 'logos,' meaning word or reason). 'Haima' also gives us hemoglobin and hemorrhage — the root turns up wherever blood shows up in medical vocabulary. The '-ology' suffix is the same workhorse ending found in biology and geology, Greek's all-purpose label for 'a systematic study of.'
- origin
- Greek haima, meaning blood, plus logos
- scope
- covers clotting, anemia, leukemia, and transfusions
- fun fact
- one teaspoon of blood holds billions of cells
- key insight
- most diagnoses start with a single blood smear