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||Hem`i*an`Ês*the"si*a (?), n. [Hemi- + anÊsthesia.] (Med.) AnÊsthesia ||upon one side of the body.

||Hem`i*bran"chi (?), n. pl. [NL. See Hemi-, and Branchia.] (Zoˆl.) An ||order of fishes having an incomplete or reduced branchial apparatus. ||It includes the sticklebacks, the flutemouths, and Fistularia.

||Hem`i*car"di*a (?), n. [NL. See Hemi-, and Cardia.] (Anat.) A lateral ||half of the heart, either the right or left. B. G. Wilder.

Hem`i*carp (?), n. [Hemi- + Gr. &?; fruit.] (Bot.) One portion of a fruit that spontaneously divides into halves.

||Hem`i*cer"e*brum (?), n. [Hemi- + cerebrum.] (Anat.) A lateral half ||of the cerebrum. Wilder.

Hem`i*col"lin (?), n. [Hemi- + collin.] (Physiol. Chem.) See Semiglutin.

||Hem`i*cra"ni*a (?), n. [L.: cf. F. hÈmicr‚nie. See Cranium, and ||Megrim.] (Med.) A pain that affects only one side of the head.

Hem"i*cra`ny (?), n. (Med.) Hemicranis.

Hem"i*cy`cle (?), n. [L. hemicyclus, Gr. &?;; &?; + &?;.] 1. A half circle; a semicircle.

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2. A semicircular place, as a semicircular arena, or room, or part of a room.

The collections will be displayed in the hemicycle of the central pavilion.

London Academy.

Hem`i*dac"tyl (?), n. [See Hemi- , and Dactyl.] (Zoˆl.) Any species of Old World geckoes of the genus Hemidactylus. The hemidactyls have dilated toes, with two rows of plates beneath.

Hem`i-dem`i-sem"i*quaver (?), n. [Hemi- + demi-semiquaver.] (Mus.) A short note, equal to one fourth of a semiquaver, or the sixty-fourth part of a whole note.

Hem`i*di"tone (?), n. [Hemi- + ditone.] (Gr. Mus.) The lesser third. Busby.

He*mig"a*mous (?), a. [Hemi- + Gr. &?; marriage.] (Bot.) Having one of the two florets in the same spikelet neuter, and the other unisexual, whether male or female; -- said of grasses.

Hem"i*glyph (?), n. [Hemi- + Gr. &?; a carving.] (Arch.) The half channel or groove in the edge of the triglyph in the Doric order.

Hem`i*he"dral (?), a. [Hemi- + Gr. &?; seat, base, fr. &?; to sit.] (Crystallog.) Having half of the similar parts of a crystals, instead of all; consisting of half the planes which full symmetry would require, as when a cube has planes only on half of its eight solid angles, or one plane out of a pair on each of its edges; or as in the case of a tetrahedron, which is hemihedral to an octahedron, it being contained under four of the planes of an octahedron. -- Hem`i*he"dral*ly, adv.

Hem`i*he"drism (?), n. (Crystallog.) The property of crystallizing hemihedrally.

Hem`i*he"dron (?), n. (Crystallog.) A solid hemihedrally derived. The tetrahedron is a hemihedron.

Hem`i*hol`o*he"dral (?), a. [Hemi- + holohedral.] (Crystallog.) Presenting hemihedral forms, in which half the sectants have the full number of planes.

Hem`i*mel*lit"ic (?), a. [Hemi- + mellitic.] (Chem.) Having half as many (three) carboxyl radicals as mellitic acid; -- said of an organic acid.

||Hem`i*me*tab"o*la (?), n. pl. [NL. See Hemi-, and Metabola.] (Zoˆl.) ||Those insects which have an incomplete metamorphosis.

Hem`i*met`a*bol"ic (?), a. (Zoˆl.) Having an incomplete metamorphosis, the larvÊ differing from the adults chiefly in laking wings, as in the grasshoppers and cockroaches.

Hem`i*mor"phic (?), a. [Hemi- + Gr. &?; form.] (Crystallog.) Having the two ends modified with unlike planes; -- said of a crystal.

He"min (?), n. [Gr. a"i^ma blood.] (Physiol. Chem.) A substance, in the form of reddish brown, microscopic, prismatic crystals, formed from dried blood by the action of strong acetic acid and common salt; -- called also Teichmann's crystals. Chemically, it is a hydrochloride of hematin.

The obtaining of these small crystals, from old blood clots or suspected blood stains, constitutes one of the best evidences of the presence of blood.