‖ hæmatosis
(hiːməˈtəʊsɪs)
[med. or mod.L., a. Gr. αἱµάτωσις (Galen), f. αἱµατό-ειν to make into blood.]
a. The formation of blood, esp. of blood-corpuscles; sanguification. b. ‘An old term for hæmorrhage.’ c. The oxygenation of the blood in the lungs (Syd. Soc. Lex.).
| 1696 Phillips (ed. 5), Hematosis, Sanguification, or turning into Blood. 1727–51 Chambers Cycl., Hæmatosis..the action whereby the chyle is converted into blood. 1811 Hooper Med. Dict., Hæmatosis, an hæmorrhage or flux of blood. 1866 A. Flint Princ. Med. (1880) 165 The interruption of the function of haematosis in the portion of lung affected. 1879–89 J. M. Duncan Lect. Dis. Women xvii. (ed. 4), Its return to regularity seems to bring with it a healthy hæmatosis. |