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Meaning of -aemia in English:

-aemia

(also -haemia) (US -emia, -hemia)

Pronunciation /?i?m??/

  • In nouns denoting that a substance is present in the blood.

    ‘septicaemia’
    • ‘leukaemia’

Origin

Modern Latin, from Greek -aimia, from haima ‘blood’.