hæmatic, hematic, a. and n.
(hiːˈmætɪk)
[ad. Gr. αἱµατικ-ός, f. αἷµα, αἱµατ- blood.]
A. adj. a. Relating or pertaining to blood. b. Containing blood, sanguineous. c. Acting upon the blood. d. Of a blood-red colour (Syd. Soc. Lex.).
| 1854 in Mayne Expos. Lex. 1854–67 C. A. Harris Dict. Med. Terminol., Spanæmic..a term applied to hæmatic remedies when such remedies impoverish the blood. 1872 Peaslee Ovar. Tumours 42 Boinet divides simple cysts..into the ‘hydatic’..the serous or ‘ascitic’; and the ‘hematic’ (sanguineous) or purulent, but not gelatinous. 1882 Lancet I. 316 Hæmatic crises. 1886 Syd. Soc. Lex., Hæmatic acid, a substance obtained..when carbonised blood is heated to redness with sodium carbonate and the residue treated with alcohol. |
B. n.
1. A medicine that acts upon the blood.
| 1854–67 C. A. Harris Dict. Med. Terminol. s.v., Hæmatics act as restoratives when they enrich the blood, or as spanæmics when they impoverish it. 1881 G. L. Carrick Koumiss 168 It is an excellent hæmatic. |
2. hæmatics: That branch of physiology or medicine which treats of the blood.
| 1854 in Mayne Expos. Lex. 1886 in Syd. Soc. Lex. |