The destruction or breaking down of blood or blood cells, particularly the rupture of red blood cells.
From 'hemo-' (blood) and Greek 'klasis' (breaking); a variant or medical synonym for hemoclasia, used interchangeably in older medical texts.
Hemoclasis and hemoclasia are essentially the same thing—different doctors in different countries used different suffixes, which is why medical terminology can have multiple names for identical processes!
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