G. = making or producing; suffix as in haemopoiesis, leucopoiesis.

Poïesis means "to make" in ancient Greek. (creation, from , to make) This word, the root of our modern "poetry", was first a verb, an action that transforms and continues the world. Neither technical production nor creation in the romantic sense, poïetic work reconciles thought with matter and time, and man with the world. It is often used as a suffix as in the biology terms hematopoiesis and erythropoiesis.