hematophagia

hematophagia
Living on the blood of another animal, as does the vampire bat or a leech. SYN: hemophagia. [hemato- + G. phago, to eat]

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he·ma·to·pha·gia (he″mə-to-) (hem″ə-to-faґjə) 1. blood drinking. 2. subsisting on the blood of another animal.

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