| haematonic | 1. Improving the condition of the blood. 2. An agent that improves the quality of blood by increasing the number of erythrocytes and/or the haemoglobin concentration. Synonym: haematic. Synonym: haematonic. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| haematopathology | The division of pathology concerned with diseases of the blood and of haemopoietic and lymphoid tissues. Synonym: haemopathology. Origin: haemato-+ G. Pathos, suffering, + logos, study (05 Mar 2000) |
| haematopathy | <haematology> Any disease of the blood. Origin: Gr. Pathos = disease (18 Nov 1997) |
| haematopenia | Deficiency of blood, including hypocytosis or cytopenia. Origin: haemato-+ G. Penia, poverty (05 Mar 2000) |
| haematophagia | Living on the blood of another animal, as does the vampire bat or a leech. Synonym: haemophagia. Origin: haemato-+ G. Phago, to eat (05 Mar 2000) |
| haematophagous | Subsisting on blood. Origin: haemato-+ G. Phago, to eat (05 Mar 2000) |
| haematophagus | A blood eater, especially bloodsucking insects. Origin: haemato-+ G. Phago, to eat (05 Mar 2000) |
| haematophlina | <zoology> A division of Cheiroptera, including the bloodsucking bats. See Vampire. Origin: NL, fr. -gr, blood + to love. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| Haematopinus | An important genus of sucking lice (family Haematopinidae) affecting swine and other domestic and wild animals; it is normally nonpathogenic. Haematopinus asini affects horses, mules, and asses; Haematopinus eurysternus and Haematopinus quadripertusus, cattle; and Haematopinus suis, swine. Origin: G. Haima, blood, + L. Pinus, pine tree (05 Mar 2000) |
| haematoplast | <anatomy> Same as Haematoblast. Origin: Haemato- + Gr. To mold. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| haematoplastic | <physiology> Blood formative; applied to a substance in early foetal life, which breaks up gradually into blood vessels. Origin: Haemato- + -plastic. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| haematopoiesis | <haematology> The formation and development of blood cells involving both proliferation and differentiation from stem cells. In adult mammals usually occurs in bone marrow. (18 Nov 1997) |
| haematopoiesis, extramedullary | The formation and development of blood cells outside the bone marrow, as in the spleen, liver, or lymph nodes. (12 Dec 1998) |
| haematopoietic | <pharmacology> Refers to an agent or process that affects or promotes the formation of blood cells. (09 Oct 1997) |
| haematopoietic cell growth factors | These growth factors comprise a family of haematopoietic regulators with biological specificities defined by their ability to support proliferation and differentiation of blood cells of different lineages. Erythropoietin and the colony-stimulating factors belong to this family. Some of these factors have been studied and used in the treatment of chemotherapy-induced neutropenia, myelodysplastic syndromes, and bone marrow failure syndromes. (12 Dec 1998) |