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One of the very minute, disk-shaped bodies found in blood with the ordinary red corpuscles and white corpuscles; a third kind of blood corpuscle, supposed by some to be an early stage in the development of the red corpuscles; -- called also blood plaque, and blood plate.

The cold-blooded vertebrates. Same as Hematocrya.

Cold-blooded.

Same as Hematocrystallin.

Same as Hemadynamometer.

The origin and development of blood.

Relating to hæmatogenesis.

Originating in the blood.

Same as Hematoglobin.

Same as Hematoid.

Same as Hematoidin.

A substance formed from the hematin of blood, by removal of the iron through the action of concentrated sulphuric acid. Two like bodies, called respectively hæmatoporphyrin and hæmatolin, are formed in a similar manner.

See Hæmatoin.

The science which treats of the blood. Same as Hematology.

Dissolution of the red blood corpuscles with diminished coagulability of the blood; hæmolysis. -- Hæm`a*to*lyt"ic (#), a.

Same as Hemadynamometer.

A division of Cheiroptera, including the bloodsucking bats. See Vampire.

Same as Hæmatoblast.

Blood formative; -- applied to a substance in early fetal life, which breaks up gradually into blood vessels.

See Hæmatoin.