Posted by Larry Hoover on November 24, 2008, at 16:09:53
In reply to Re: What is this? » Midnightblue, posted by Phillipa on November 24, 2008, at 14:02:49
> Two different speelings as there is toxemia also? Love Phillipa Lar is smart!!!!!
The original Greek hamia (blood) became the Latin haemia, which lost the h when it became the suffix used in medicine. It's a modern American spelling that also took out the a, leaving -emia. Older texts, or those of the British Commonwealth, would tend to use the form -aemia. So toxemia is the modern American spelling of toxaemia, and will likely become the standard spelling around the world because toxaemia looks funny and doesn't spell the way it sounds.
Lar
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