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The normal coloring matter of the red blood corpuscles of vertebrate animals. It is composed of hematin and globulin, and is also called hæmatoglobulin. In arterial blood, it is always combined with oxygen, and is then called oxyhemoglobin. It crystallizes under different forms from different animals, and when crystall…

Deviating from ordinary forms or rules; irregular; anomalous; abnormal.

Deviating from ordinary forms or rules; irregular; anomalous; abnormal.

ee under Stimulus. -- Heterologous tumor (Med.), a tumor differing in structure from the normal tissues of the body.

t elements, or of like elements in different proportions; variation in structure from the normal form; -- opposed to homology.

Deviating from the normal, perfect, or mature form; having different forms at different stages of existence, or in different individuals of the same species; -- applied especially to insects in which there is a wide difference of form between the larva and the adult, and to plants having more than one form of flower.…

An abnormal state of the voice. Mayne.

An abnormal formation foreign to the economy, and composed of elements different from those are found in it in its normal condition. Dunglison.

Variation in arrangement from that existing in a normal form; heterogenous arrangement or structure, as, in botany, the deviation in position of the organs of a plant, from the ordinary or typical arrangement.

from the natural position; -- a term applied in the case of organs or growths which are abnormal in situation.

(Med.) Excessive perspiration; also, any skin disease characterized by abnormal perspiration.

Resembling the normal tissues; as, histoid tumors.

A soluble ferment occurring in the animal body, to the presence of which many normal decompositions and synthetical processes are supposed to be due.

Very large; enormous; immense; excessive; -- used esp. of material bulk, but often of qualities, extent, etc.; as, a huge ox; a huge space; a huge difference. "The huge confusion." Chapman. "A huge filly." Jer. Taylor. -- Huge"ly, adv. -- Huge"ness, n. Doth it not flow as hugely as the sea. Shak.

An uneasy sensation occasioned normally by the want of food; a craving or desire for food.

An abnormally watery state of the blood; anæmia.

usually to tubercular meningitis. When it occurs in infancy, it often enlarges the head enormously.

An abnormal dread of water, said to be a symptom of canine madness; hence:

A prefix signifying over, above; as, hyperphysical, hyperthyrion; also, above measure, abnormally great, excessive; as, hyperæmia, hyperbola, hypercritical, hypersecretion.

A condition of the blood, characterized by an abnormally large amount of fibrin, as in many inflammatory diseases.