||Hem`a*to"sis (?), n. [NL., fr. Gr. a"ima`twsis.] (Physiol.) (a)
||Sanguification; the conversion of chyle into blood. (b) The
||arterialization of the blood in the lungs; the formation of blood in
||general; hÊmatogenesis.
||Hem`a*to*ther"ma (?), n. pl. [NL., from Gr. a"i^ma, a"i`matos, blood
||+ thermo`s warm.] (Zoˆl.) The warm-blooded vertebrates, comprising
||the mammals and birds; -- the antithesis to hematocrya.
Hem"a*to*ther"mal (?), a. Warm- blooded.
Hem`a*tox"y*lin (?), n. HÊmatoxylin.
||Hem`a*tu"ri*a (?), n. [NL. See Hema-, and Urine.] (Med.) Passage of
||urine mingled with blood.
Hem`au*tog"ra*phy (?), n. (Physiol.) The obtaining of a curve similar
to a pulse curve or sphygmogram by allowing the blood from a divided
artery to strike against a piece of paper.
{ ||Hem*el"y*tron (? or ?), ||Hem*el"y*trum (- trm cf. Elytron, 277),
}, n.; pl. Hemelytra (&?;). [NL. See Hemi, and Elytron.] (Zoˆl.) One of
the partially thickened anterior wings of certain insects, as of many
Hemiptera, the earwigs, etc.
||Hem`e*ra*lo"pi*a (?), n. [NL., fr. Gr. &?;, the opposite of &?;; &?;
||day + &?; of &?;. See Nyctalopia.] (Med.) A disease of the eyes, in
||consequence of which a person can see clearly or without pain only by
||daylight or a strong artificial light; day sight.
Some writers (as Quain) use the word in the opposite sense, i. e., day
blindness. See Nyctalopia.
Hem`er*o"bi*an (?), n. [Gr. &?; day + &?; life.] (Zoˆl.) A neuropterous
insect of the genus Hemerobius, and allied genera.
He*mer"o*bid (?), a. (Zoˆl.) Of relating to the hemerobians.
||Hem`e*ro*cal"lis (?), n. [NL., fr. Gr. &?;; &?; day + &?; beauty.]
||(Bot.) A genus of plants, some species of which are cultivated for
||their beautiful flowers; day lily.
Hem"i- (?). [Gr. "hmi-. See Semi-.] A prefix signifying half.
Hem`i*al*bu"min (?), n. [Hemi- + albumin.] (Physiol. Chem.) Same as
Hemialbumose.
Hem`i*al"bu"mose` (?), n. [Hemi- + albumose.] (Physiol. Chem.) An
albuminous substance formed in gastric digestion, and by the action of
boiling dilute acids on albumin. It is readily convertible into
hemipeptone. Called also hemialbumin.
||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.
||He*mi"na (?), n.; pl. HeminÊ (#). [L., fr. Gr. &?;.] 1. (Rom. Antiq.)
||A measure of half a sextary. Arbuthnot.