The person with disease have no tendacy to love blood...then why it is named Hemo+ Philia?
Etymology
haemo- + -philia, from Ancient Greek αἷμα (blood) + φιλία (friendship)
1854 (in Anglicized form hæmophily), from Ger. hämophile, coined in Mod.L. in 1828 by Ger. physician Johann Lucas Schönlein (1793-1864), from Gk. haima "blood" (see -emia) + philia "to love," related to philos "loving."
In medical terminology, words are often combined of Greek and Latin roots and affixes. And we can recognize the meaning of a word by knowing the meaning of the prefix, the root and the suffix. The word "hemophilia" consists of a prefix " hemo-" meaning "blood" and a suffix "-philia" meaning " attraction to". Thus the whole meaning of the term means " a condition of attraction to blood". However, the word is defined in medical usage as " an inherited genetic disorder that impairs the body's ability to make blood clots". I was wondering if there is any reasonable explanation for this.
https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/387256/the-meaning-of-the-word-hemophilia
Dear it is not based on affinity to blood but susceptibility to bleeding.
Etymology
haemo- + -philia, from Ancient Greek αἷμα (blood) + φιλία (friendship)
1854 (in Anglicized form hæmophily), from Ger. hämophile, coined in Mod.L. in 1828 by Ger. physician Johann Lucas Schönlein (1793-1864), from Gk. haima "blood" (see -emia) + philia "to love," related to philos "loving."
In medical terminology, words are often combined of Greek and Latin roots and affixes. And we can recognize the meaning of a word by knowing the meaning of the prefix, the root and the suffix. The word "hemophilia" consists of a prefix " hemo-" meaning "blood" and a suffix "-philia" meaning " attraction to". Thus the whole meaning of the term means " a condition of attraction to blood". However, the word is defined in medical usage as " an inherited genetic disorder that impairs the body's ability to make blood clots". I was wondering if there is any reasonable explanation for this.
https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/387256/the-meaning-of-the-word-hemophilia
The etymology of the words includes also friendship.
But they knew very little about how blood clots. It was not until just before World War II that doctors learned that hemophilia A was caused by a problem with a protein in the blood, later called factor VIII. Eleven other blood factors were recognized in the 1950s. ... Hemophilia has been called a "royal disease"
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