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hæmo-
hæmo-, hemo- (hiːməʊ, hɛməʊ) before a vowel hæm-, hem- (hiːm, hɛm), repr. Gr. αἱµο-, shortened form of αἱµατο- hæmato-, combining form of αἷµα blood: cf. Gr. αἱµοπώτης = αἱµατοπώτης blood-drinker, αἱµορραγία hæmorrhage. Many words in hæmo- occur also in the fuller form hæmato-. Some of these words h...
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hæma-
hæma-, hema- repr. Gr. αἷµα blood; sometimes improperly used as combining form instead of the etymologically regular hæmato- or hæmo-. For such words in hæma- see hæmo-. These erroneous forms in hæma- are nearly all of French origination. Littré has hémachroïne, -dromomètre, -dynamique, -statique; t...
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hæmagogue
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 obse...
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hæmocyanin
hæmocyanin, hemo- Chem. (hiːməʊˈsaɪənɪn) Also erron. hæma-. [See hæmo- and cyanin.] a. A blue colouring matter which has been found in human blood. b. A substance containing copper, blue when oxidized and colourless when deoxidized, found normally in the blood of some invertebrates.1845 G. E. Day tr...
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hæmophæin
hæmophæin Chem. (hiːməʊˈfiːɪn) Also hæma-, -phein. [mod. f. hæmo- + Gr. ϕαι-ός dusky + -in. The erroneous spelling hæma- follows F. hémaphéine.] A brownish substance found in the blood in some cases of jaundice.1845 G. E. Day tr. Simon's Anim. Chem. I. 40 The ether takes up a certain amount of hæmap...
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hæmolymph
hæmolymph Physiol. (ˈhiːməʊlɪmf) [f. hæmo- + lymph.] The fluid, analogous to blood or lymph, in the body-cavity of some invertebrates.1885 Ray Lankester in Encycl. Brit. XIX. 432/1 In Eupolyzoa the cœlom is very capacious; it is occupied by a coagulable hæmolymph in which float cellular corpuscles. ...
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hæmostatic
hæmostatic, hemo-, a. and n. (hiːməʊˈstætɪk, hɛm-) Also erron. hæma-, hema-. [mod. f. hæmo- + Gr. στατικός causing to stand, stopping. In mod.F. héma-, hémostatique (Littré).] A. adj. Having the property of stopping hæmorrhage; styptic.1834 Lancet 8 Mar. 889/2, I have resolved upon giving such a vie...
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hæmapophysis
‖ hæmapophysis Anat. (hiːməˈpɒfɪsɪs) [mod.L.: see hæmo- and apophysis. (So called as being situated towards the hæmal aspect of the body.)] Owen's term for that portion of the hæmal arch of a typical vertebra situated between the pleurapophysis and the hæmal spine; represented in the trunk of a vert...
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hæmoptysis
‖ hæmoptysis Path. (hiːˈmɒptɪsɪs) [mod.L. f. hæmo- + πτύσις spitting, f. πτύ-ειν to spit.] Spitting of blood; expectoration of blood, or of bloody mucus, etc., from the lungs or bronchi.1646 Sir T. Browne Pseud. Ep. i. xi. 46 Julian for his hæmoptysis or spitting of bloud, was cured by hony and pine...
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hæmostatics
hæmoˈstatics, hemo- Also erron. hyma-, hæma-, hema-. [See hæmo- and statics.] The hydrostatics of the blood; ‘the section of physiology which relates to the laws of the equilibrium of the blood in the vessels’ (Syd. Soc. Lex.).1733 S. Hales (title) Hymastaticks; or, an Account of some Hydraulick and...
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hæmometer
hæmometer (hiːˈmɒmɪtə(r)) [See hæmo- and -meter.] An instrument for measuring (a) the quantity of blood passing through a vessel in a given time; (b) the pressure of the blood (= hæmodynamometer); or (c) the amount of hæmoglobin in the blood (= hæmoglobinometer).1872 Rutherford in Lancet I. 675 The ...
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hæmautograph
hæmautograph (hiːˈmɔːtəgrɑːf, -græf) [f. hæmo- + autograph.] The apparatus used in tracing the pulse-curve obtained by opening an artery and allowing the stream of blood to strike against a roll of paper moving in front of it. Hence hæmautoˈgraphic, a.; hæmauˈtography, the operation of recording the...
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