Relating to or describing nutrition that comes from or depends on blood, especially in the context of how fetuses or parasites feed.
From 'hemotroph' + '-ic' (relating to). Adjective form describing hemotrophic nutrition in biology.
Baby humans actually develop two different feeding strategies in the womb—early on they absorb nutrients through tissue contact, but later they become hemotrophic, getting everything from the mother's blood through the placenta.
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