hæmagogue, hem-, a. and n.
(ˈhiːm-, ˈhɛməgɒg)
[f. Gr. αἷµ-α blood, hæmo- + ἀγωγός leading.]
A. adj. Promoting a menstrual or hæmorrhoidal discharge of blood. B. n. A medicine which has this quality.
| 1702 Floyer Hist. Cold Bathing i. ii. (1706) 43 Probably for their Hemagogue Faculty, Hippocrates observes, That Cold Bathing makes bloody Urine worse. 1854 Mayne Expos. Lex., Hemagogue. 1886 Syd. Soc. Lex., Hæmagogue. |