Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Of, relating to, resembling, containing, or acting on blood.
- noun A hematinic.
from The Century Dictionary.
- In anatomy and physiology, of or pertaining to, or occurring in, the blood; sanguineous; hemal.
- In medicine, effecting an improvement in the condition of the blood.
- noun A medicine which effects a change in the condition of the blood.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Same as
hæmatic . - noun (Med.) A medicine designed to improve the condition of the blood.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Of, pertaining to, affecting or containing
blood - noun
hematinic
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective relating to or containing or affecting blood
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Baseball might be America's favorite pastime, but in Afghanistan, national sports take on a more hematic flair.
Inside The Strange, Bloody Sport Of 'Goat-Grabbing' Curtis M. Wong 2011
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Baseball might be America s favorite pastime, but in Afghanistan, national sports take on a more hematic flair.
Inside The Strange, Bloody Sport Of 'Goat-Grabbing' Curtis M. Wong 2011
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Baseball might be America's favorite pastime, but in Afghanistan, national sports take on a more hematic flair.
Inside The Strange, Bloody Sport Of 'Goat-Grabbing' Curtis M. Wong 2011
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Baseball might be America's favorite pastime, but in Afghanistan, national sports take on a more hematic flair.
Inside The Strange, Bloody Sport Of 'Goat-Grabbing' Curtis M. Wong 2011
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And just in case that name is insufficiently hematic, Finlandia vodka suggests a variation made with lime vodka that it calls Vampire Juice.
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LAMB: On page 180, you give 16 reasons, I counted, that you wanted people to consider for -- why all this happened: ` One, precolonial inequalities; two, the fanatically thorough and '-- hierchial -- ` hierarchical centralized administration; three, the hematic myth and the radical polarization under Belgian rule.'
We wish to inform you that tomorrow we will be killed with our families: Stories from Rwanda 1998
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Perhaps Elizabeth LeCompte found Francesco Cavalli's 1641 baroque opus, La Didone, a trifle bloodless-she's corrected that hematic imbalance by splicing the opera with scenes from the 1965 B-flick Planet of the Vampires.
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La Didone, a trifle bloodless-she's corrected that hematic imbalance by splicing the opera with scenes from the 1965 B-flick
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Perhaps Elizabeth LeCompte found Francesco Cavalli's 1641 baroque opus, La Didone, a trifle bloodless-she's corrected that hematic imbalance by splicing the opera with scenes from the 1965 B-flick Planet of the Vampires.
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Perhaps Elizabeth LeCompte found Francesco Cavalli's 1641 baroque opus, La Didone, a trifle bloodless-she's corrected that hematic imbalance by splicing the opera with scenes from the 1965 B-flick Planet of the Vampires.
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