Part 5225

<hw><hw>Hem`a*drom"e*ter</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <hw>Hem`a*dro*mom"e*ter</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>,<hw> <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[<ets>Hema-</ets> + Gr. <?/ course + <ets>-meter</ets>.]</ety> <fld>(Physiol.)</fld> <def>An instrument for measuring the velocity with which the blood moves in the arteries.</def><-- now hemodromometer -->

<h1>Hemadrometry, Hemadromometry</h1> <Xpage=684>

<hw><hw>Hem`a*drom`e*try</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <hw>Hem`a*dro*mom"e*try</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>,<hw> <tt>n.</tt> <fld>(Physiol.)</fld> <def>The act of measuring the velocity with which the blood circulates in the arteries; h\'91motachometry.</def>

<h1>Hemadynamics</h1> <Xpage=684>

<hw>He`ma*dy*nam"ics</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[<ets>Hema-</ets> + <ets>dynamics</ets>.]</ety> <fld>(Physiol.)</fld> <def>The principles of dynamics in their application to the blood; that part of science which treats of the motion of the blood.</def>

<h1>Hemadynamometer</h1> <Xpage=684>

<hw>He`ma*dy"na*mom"e*ter</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[<ets>Hema-</ets> + <ets>dynamometr</ets>.]</ety> <fld>(Physiol.)</fld> <def>An instrument by which the pressure of the blood in the arteries, or veins, is measured by the height to which it will raise a column of mercury; -- called also a <altname>h\'91momanometer</altname>.</def>

<h1>Hemal</h1> <Xpage=684>

<hw>He"mal</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[Gr. <grk>a"i^ma</grk> blood.]</ety> <def>Relating to the blood or blood vessels; pertaining to, situated in the region of, or on the side with, the heart and great blood vessels; -- opposed to <i>neural</i>.</def>

<note>&hand; As applied to vertebrates, <i>hemal</i> is the same as <i>ventral</i>, the heart and great blood vessels being on the ventral, and the central nervous system on the dorsal, side of the vertebral column.</note>

<cs><col>Hemal arch</col> <fld>(Anat.)</fld>, <cd>the ventral arch in a segment of the spinal skeleton, formed by vertebral processes or ribs.</cd></cs>

<h1>Hemaph\'91in</h1> <Xpage=684>

<hw>Hem`a*ph\'91"in</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>Same as <er>H\'91maph\'91in</er>.</def>

<h1>Hemapophysis</h1> <Xpage=684>

<hw>Hem`a*poph"y*sis</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt>; <plu>pl. <plw>Hemapophyses</plw> </plu>. <ety>[NL. See <er>H\'91ma-</er>, and <er>Apophysis</er>.]</ety> <fld>(Anat.)</fld> <def>The second element in each half of a hemal arch, corresponding to the sternal part of a rib.</def> <i>Owen</i>. -- <wordforms><wf>Hem`a*po*phys"i*al</wf> <tt>(#)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt></wordforms>

<h1>Hemastatic, Hemastatical</h1> <Xpage=684>

<hw><hw>Hem`a*stat"ic</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <hw>Hem`a*stat"ic*al</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>,<hw> <tt>a. & n.</tt> <def>Same as <er>Hemostatic</er>.</def>

<h1>Hemastatics</h1> <Xpage=684>

<hw>Hem`a*stat"ics</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <fld>(Physiol.)</fld> <def>Laws relating to the equilibrium of the blood in the blood vessels.</def>

<h1>Hematachometer</h1> <Xpage=684>

<hw>Hem`a*ta*chom"e*ter</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>Same as <er>H\'91matachometer</er>.</def>

<h1>Hematein</h1> <Xpage=684>

<hw>Hem`a*te"in</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[Gr. <?/, <?/, blood.]</ety> <fld>(Chem.)</fld> <def>A reddish brown or violet crystalline substance, <chform>C16H12O6</chform>, got from hematoxylin by partial oxidation, and regarded as analogous to the phthaleins.</def>

<h1>Hematemesis</h1> <Xpage=684>

<hw>Hem`a*tem"e*sis</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[NL., fr. Gr. <grk>a"i^ma</grk>, <grk>a"i`matos</grk>, blood + <?/ a vomiting, fr. <?/ to vomit.]</ety> <fld>(Med.)</fld> <def>A vomiting of blood.</def>

<h1>Hematherm</h1> <Xpage=684>

<hw>Hem"a*therm</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[Gr. <grk>a"i^ma</grk> blood + <?/ warm.]</ety> <fld>(Zo\'94l.)</fld> <def>A warm-blooded animal.</def> <mark>[R.]</mark>

<h1>Hemathermal</h1> <Xpage=684>