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  • English Word Hematoxylin Definition Haematoxylin.
  • English Word Hematuria Definition Passage of urine mingled with blood.
  • English Word Hemautography Definition 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.
  • English Word Hemelytra Definition of Hemelytrum
  • English Word Hemelytron Definition Alt. of Hemelytrum
  • English Word Hemelytrum Definition One of the partially thickened anterior wings of certain insects, as of many Hemiptera, the earwigs, etc.
  • English Word Hemeralopia Definition 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.
  • English Word Hemerobian Definition A neuropterous insect of the genus Hemerobius, and allied genera.
  • English Word Hemerobid Definition Of relating to the hemerobians.
  • English Word Hemerocallis Definition A genus of plants, some species of which are cultivated for their beautiful flowers; day lily.
  • English Word Hemi- Definition A prefix signifying half.
  • English Word Hemi-demi-semiquaver Definition A short note, equal to one fourth of a semiquaver, or the sixty-fourth part of a whole note.
  • English Word Hemialbumin Definition Same as Hemialbumose.
  • English Word Hemialbumose Definition 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.
  • English Word Hemianaesthesia Definition Anaesthesia upon one side of the body.
  • English Word Hemibranchi Definition An order of fishes having an incomplete or reduced branchial apparatus. It includes the sticklebacks, the flutemouths, and Fistularia.
  • English Word Hemicardia Definition A lateral half of the heart, either the right or left.
  • English Word Hemicarp Definition One portion of a fruit that spontaneously divides into halves.
  • English Word Hemicerebrum Definition A lateral half of the cerebrum.
  • English Word Hemicollin Definition See Semiglutin.
  • English Word Hemicrania Definition A pain that affects only one side of the head.
  • English Word Hemicrany Definition Hemicranis.
  • English Word Hemicycle Definition A half circle; a semicircle.
  • English Word Hemicycle Definition A semicircular place, as a semicircular arena, or room, or part of a room.
  • English Word Hemidactyl Definition Any species of Old World geckoes of the genus Hemidactylus. The hemidactyls have dilated toes, with two rows of plates beneath.
  • English Word Hemiditone Definition The lesser third.
  • English Word Hemigamous Definition Having one of the two florets in the same spikelet neuter, and the other unisexual, whether male or female; -- said of grasses.
  • English Word Hemiglyph Definition The half channel or groove in the edge of the triglyph in the Doric order.
  • English Word Hemihedral Definition 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.
  • English Word Hemihedrism Definition The property of crystallizing hemihedrally.