A cell or organism that consumes or feeds on blood.
From Greek 'haima' (blood) + '-phage' (eater of, from 'phagein' to eat). The term describes anything that eats blood.
Mosquitoes, ticks, bedbugs, and vampire bats are all hemophages—they've evolved to survive entirely on blood, and some of them can transmit deadly diseases like malaria and dengue fever.
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