What it means
From the Greek for love. Hemophilia was named as a "tendency to bleed", and pedophilia is a sexual attraction to children. The related ending -phil names things drawn to something: a neutrophil is a white blood cell that takes up neutral stains.
Related terms
neutrophil
The most common type of white blood cell, which is first to reach and destroy bacteria at a site of infection.
ped/o
A word root that means child; in some words a look-alike root means foot.