Hematitic
(Hem`a*tit"ic) a. Of or pertaining to hematite, or resembling it.
Hemato
(Hem"a*to) See Hæma-.
Hematocele
(He*mat"o*cele) n. [Hemato- + Gr. tumor: cf. F. hématocèle.] (Med.) A tumor filled with
blood.
Hematocrya
(||Hem`a*toc"ry*a) n. pl. [NL., fr. Gr. a"i^ma, a"i`matos, blood + kry`os cold.] (Zoöl.) The
cold-blooded vertebrates, that is, all but the mammals and birds; — the antithesis to Hematotherma.
Hematocrystallin
(Hem`a*to*crys"tal*lin) n. [Hemato + crystalline.] (Physiol.) See Hemoglobin.
Hematoid
(Hem"a*toid) a. [Hemato- + -oid.] (Physiol.) Resembling blood.
Hematoidin
(Hem`a*toid"in) n. (Physiol. Chem.) A crystalline or amorphous pigment, free from iron,
formed from hematin in old blood stains, and in old hemorrhages in the body. It resembles bilirubin.
When present in the corpora lutea it is called hæmolutein.
Hematology
(Hem`a*tol"o*gy) n. [Hemato- + -logy.] The science which treats of the blood.
Hematoma
(||Hem`a*to"ma) n. [NL. See Hema- , and -oma.] (Med.) A circumscribed swelling produced
by an effusion of blood beneath the skin.
Hematophilia
(||Hem`a*to*phil"i*a) n. [NL., fr. Gr. a"i^ma, a"i`matos, blood + filei^n to love.] (Med.)
A condition characterized by a tendency to profuse and uncontrollable hemorrhage from the slightest
wounds.
Hematosin
(Hem`a*to"sin) n. (Physiol. Chem.) The hematin of blood. [R.]
Hematosis
(||Hem`a*to"sis) n. [NL., fr. Gr. a"ima`twsis.] (Physiol.) (a) Sanguification; the conversion
of chyle into blood. (b) The arterialization of the blood in the lungs; the formation of blood in general; hæmatogenesis.
Hematotherma
(||Hem`a*to*ther"ma) n. pl. [NL., from Gr. a"i^ma, a"i`matos, blood + thermo`s warm.]
(Zoöl.) The warm-blooded vertebrates, comprising the mammals and birds; — the antithesis to hematocrya.
Hematothermal
(Hem"a*to*ther"mal) a. Warm- blooded.
Hematoxylin
(Hem`a*tox"y*lin) n. Hæmatoxylin.
Hematuria
(||Hem`a*tu"ri*a) n. [NL. See Hema-, and Urine.] (Med.) Passage of urine mingled with
blood.
Hemautography
(Hem`au*tog"ra*phy) n. (Physiol.) The obtaining of a curve similar to a pulse curve or
sphygmogram by allowing the blood from a divided artery to strike against a piece of paper.
Hemelytron
(||Hem*el"y*tron ||Hem*el"y*trum) (- trum cf. Elytron, 277),, n.; pl. Hemelytra [NL. See
Hemi, and Elytron.] (Zoöl.) One of the partially thickened anterior wings of certain insects, as of many
Hemiptera, the earwigs, etc.
Hemeralopia
(||Hem`e*ra*lo"pi*a) n. [NL., fr. Gr. the opposite of day + of . See Nyctalopia.] (Med.) A
disease of the eyes, in consequence of which a person can see clearly or without pain only by daylight
or a strong artificial light; day sight.
Some writers (as Quain) use the word in the opposite sense, i. e., day blindness. See Nyctalopia.
Hemerobian
(Hem`er*o"bi*an) n. [Gr. day + life.] (Zoöl.) A neuropterous insect of the genus Hemerobius,
and allied genera.
