Letter e

Emia

Suffix meaning blood or referring to the presence of a substance in the blood.

As for example, anemia (lack of blood) and hypervolemia (too high a volume of blood).

The ending -emia is one of the building blocks derived from Greek (in this case) or Latin used to construct medical terms.

From the Greek haima blood + -ia

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