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Words for our modern age especially English words from Latin and Greek sources.

Word Unit: hemoglobin-, hemoglobino-, hemoglobini- + (Greek: "blood " plus Latin: "sphere, ball"; oxygen-carrying protein of the red corpuscles).

Inter-related cross references, directly or indirectly, involving "blood" word units: angi-; apheresis; -emia; hemo-; phleb-; sangui-; vas-; vascul-.

Related ball, sphere-word units: glob-, glom-; sphero-.


Word Unit: hendeca-, hendec- (Greek: eleven).

Word Unit: heno-, hen- (Greek: one; used as a prefix).

Word Unit: hepato-, hepat-, hepatico- (Greek: liver).

Word Unit: hepta-, hept- (Greek: seven; used as a prefix).

Word Unit: her-, hes- (Latin: stick to, to stick, cling to, cleave to).

Word Unit: herb- (Latin: green crop, grass).

Word Unit: hered-, herit- (Latin: heir; "he, or she, who obtains that which is left").

Word Unit: heres-, heretic- + (Greek > Latin: a taking, choosing, choice; to take for oneself; sect).

Word Unit: herm-, herme- + (Greek: Hermes, the son of Zeus and Maia, the god of commerce and messenger of the gods in Greek mythology; identified by the Romans as Mercury).

Word Unit: hernio-, herni- + (Latin: protruded viscus; rupture; in the sense of "protrusion of tissue or part of an organ through an abnormal opening in the surrounding walls").

Word Unit: herpeto-, herpet-, herp- (Greek: creeping thing, reptile; snake).

Word Unit: hesperian (Greek > Latin: west, evening).

Word Unit: heter-, hetero- + (Greek: different, other, another, unlike; irregular, abnormal; used as a prefix).

Word Unit: Heuristic Details (Greek heuriskein and Modern Latin heuristicus and from German heuristisch; "to invent, to discover").

Word Unit: hex-, hexa- (Greek: six; a number used as a prefix).

Word Unit: hiat-; -hisc- (Latin: to stand open, to split; opening, aperture, gap; to yawn).

Word Unit: hiber- + (Latin: winter, wintered, wintry).

Word Unit: hidero-, hider-, hidro-, hidr-, -hidrosis, -hidrotic (Greek: sweat, perspiration; sweat gland).

Word Unit: hiero-, hier- + (Greek: sacred, holy).

Related religious-word units: church; dei-, div-; ecclesi-; fanati-; idol-; -olatry; theo-; zelo-.

Related "holy, sacred" word families: hagio-; icono-; sacro-; sanct-.


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