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A brownish substance sometimes found in the blood, in cases of jaundice.

Bloodforming; as, the hæmapoietic function of the spleen.

of apparatus (somewhat different from the hemadrometer) for measuring the velocity of the blood.

The measurement of the velocity of the blood.

Of or pertaining to the blood; sanguine; brownish red. Hæmatic acid (Physiol.), a hypothetical acid, supposed to be formed from hemoglobin during its oxidation in the lungs, and to have the power of freeing carbonic acid from the sodium carbonate of the serum. Thudichum.

Of a blood-red color; crimson; (Bot.) brownish red.

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.

The origin and development of blood.

Originating in the blood.

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.

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.

An instrument for determining the number of blood corpuscles in a given quantity of blood.

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

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

Warm-blooded; homoiothermal.

A parasite inhabiting the blood; esp.:

A breaking up of the blood corpuscles, as by pressure, in distinction from solution of the corpuscles, or hæmcytolysis.