| h
|
(noun) the constant of proportionality relating the energy of a photon to its frequency; approximately 6.626 x 10^-34 joule-second |
Synonyms:
Planck's constant |
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| (noun) the 8th letter of the Roman alphabet |
Synonyms:
H |
| habanera
|
(noun) music composed in duple time for dancing the habanera |
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| (noun) a Cuban dance in duple time |
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| haberdasher
|
(noun) a merchant who sells men's clothing |
Synonyms:
clothier |
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| haberdashery
|
(noun) a store where men's clothes are sold |
Synonyms:
haberdashery store,
mens store,
clothing store |
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| (noun) the drygoods sold by a haberdasher |
Synonyms:
men's furnishings |
| habergeon
|
(noun) (Middle Ages) a light sleeveless coat of chain mail worn under the hauberk |
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| habiliment
|
(noun) a covering designed to be worn on a person's body |
Synonyms:
wear,
wearable,
vesture,
clothing,
article of clothing |
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| habilimented
|
(adjective) dressed or clothed especially in fine attire; often used in combination |
Synonyms:
robed,
dressed,
garbed,
garmented,
appareled,
attired |
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| habilitate
|
(verb) qualify for teaching at a university in Europe |
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| (verb) provide with clothes or put clothes on |
Synonyms:
dress,
fit out,
clothe,
raiment,
garb,
garment,
enclothe,
apparel,
tog |
| habit
|
(noun) an established custom |
Synonyms:
wont |
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| (noun) (psychology) an automatic pattern of behavior in reaction to a specific situation; may be inherited or acquired through frequent repetition |
Synonyms:
use |
| (noun) a distinctive attire worn by a member of a religious order |
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| (noun) the general form or mode of growth (especially of a plant or crystal) |
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| (noun) attire that is typically worn by a horseback rider (especially a woman's attire) |
Synonyms:
riding habit |
| (noun) excessive use of drugs |
Synonyms:
drug abuse,
substance abuse |
| (verb) put a habit on |
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| habitability
|
(noun) suitability for living in or on |
Synonyms:
habitableness |
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| habitable
|
(adjective) fit for habitation |
Synonyms:
inhabitable |
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| habitableness
|
(noun) suitability for living in or on |
Synonyms:
habitability |
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| habitant
|
(noun) a person who inhabits a particular place |
Synonyms:
indweller,
denizen,
inhabitant,
dweller |
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| habitat
|
(noun) the type of environment in which an organism or group normally lives or occurs |
Synonyms:
home ground |
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| habitation
|
(noun) the native habitat or home of an animal or plant |
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| (noun) housing that someone is living in |
Synonyms:
home,
domicile,
abode,
dwelling,
dwelling house |
| (noun) the act of dwelling in or living permanently in a place (said of both animals and men) |
Synonyms:
inhabitancy,
inhabitation |
| habited
|
(adjective) dressed in a habit |
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| habitual
|
(adjective) commonly used or practiced; usual |
Synonyms:
wonted,
customary,
accustomed |
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| habitually
|
(adverb) according to habit or custom |
- |
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| habituate
|
(verb) take or consume (regularly or habitually) |
Synonyms:
use |
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| (verb) make psychologically or physically used (to something) |
Synonyms:
accustom |
| habituation
|
(noun) being abnormally tolerant to and dependent on something that is psychologically or physically habit-forming (especially alcohol or narcotic drugs) |
Synonyms:
dependency,
addiction,
dependance,
dependence |
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| (noun) a general accommodation to unchanging environmental conditions |
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| habitude
|
(noun) habitual mode of behavior |
- |
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| habitue
|
(noun) a regular patron |
Synonyms:
fixture,
regular |
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| habitus
|
(noun) person's predisposition to be affected by something (as a disease) |
- |
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| (noun) constitution of the human body |
Synonyms:
physique,
build,
body-build |
| hacek
|
(noun) a diacritical mark (an inverted circumflex) placed above certain letters (such as the letter c) to indicate pronunciation |
Synonyms:
wedge |
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| hachure
|
(noun) shading consisting of multiple crossing lines |
Synonyms:
hatch,
hatching,
crosshatch |
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| hacienda
|
(noun) a large estate in Spanish-speaking countries |
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| (noun) the main house on a ranch or large estate |
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| hack
|
(verb) cut with a hacking tool |
Synonyms:
chop |
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| (verb) be able to manage or manage successfully |
Synonyms:
cut |
| (verb) cut away |
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| (verb) kick on the arms |
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| (verb) kick on the shins |
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| (verb) fix a computer program piecemeal until it works |
Synonyms:
hack on |
| (verb) significantly cut up a manuscript |
Synonyms:
cut up |
| (verb) cough spasmodically |
Synonyms:
whoop |
| (noun) one who works hard at boring tasks |
Synonyms:
hacker,
drudge |
| (noun) a politician who belongs to a small clique that controls a political party for private rather than public ends |
Synonyms:
machine politician,
political hack,
ward-heeler |
| (noun) a mediocre and disdained writer |
Synonyms:
hack writer,
literary hack |
| (noun) a tool (as a hoe or pick or mattock) used for breaking up the surface of the soil |
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| (noun) a car driven by a person whose job is to take passengers where they want to go in exchange for money |
Synonyms:
cab,
taxi,
taxicab |
| (noun) an old or over-worked horse |
Synonyms:
jade,
plug,
nag |
| (noun) a horse kept for hire |
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| (noun) a saddle horse used for transportation rather than sport etc. |
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| hackamore
|
(noun) rope or canvas headgear for a horse, with a rope for leading |
Synonyms:
halter |
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| hackathon
|
(noun) an event involving a marathon coding session |
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| hackberry
|
(noun) any of various trees of the genus Celtis having inconspicuous flowers and small berrylike fruits |
Synonyms:
nettle tree |
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| (noun) small edible dark purple to black berry with large pits; southern United States |
Synonyms:
sugarberry |
| hackbut
|
(noun) an obsolete firearm with a long barrel |
Synonyms:
hagbut,
harquebus,
arquebus |
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| hackee
|
(noun) small striped semiterrestrial eastern American squirrel with cheek pouches |
Synonyms:
ground squirrel,
eastern chipmunk,
striped squirrel,
Tamias striatus |
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| hacker
|
(noun) someone who plays golf poorly |
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| (noun) a programmer for whom computing is its own reward; may enjoy the challenge of breaking into other computers but does no harm |
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| (noun) one who works hard at boring tasks |
Synonyms:
hack,
drudge |
| hackle
|
(verb) comb with a heckle |
Synonyms:
heckle,
hatchel |
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| (noun) long slender feather on the necks of e.g. turkeys and pheasants |
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| hackles
|
(noun) a feeling of anger and animosity |
Synonyms:
dander |
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| hackmatack
|
(noun) poplar of northeastern North America with broad heart-shaped leaves |
Synonyms:
Populus balsamifera,
balsam poplar,
tacamahac |
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| hackney
|
(noun) a carriage for hire |
Synonyms:
hackney carriage,
hackney coach |
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| (noun) a compact breed of harness horse |
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| hackneyed
|
(adjective) repeated too often; overfamiliar through overuse |
Synonyms:
old-hat,
well-worn,
shopworn,
stock,
commonplace,
banal,
threadbare,
timeworn,
tired,
trite |
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| hacksaw
|
(noun) saw used with one hand for cutting metal |
Synonyms:
hack saw,
metal saw |
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| hackwork
|
(noun) professional work done according to formula |
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| (noun) (Literary & Literary Critical Terms) undistinguished literary work produced to order. |
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| hadal
|
(adjective) relating to the deepest parts of the ocean (below 6000 meters) |
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| haddock
|
(noun) lean white flesh of fish similar to but smaller than cod; usually baked or poached or as fillets sauteed or fried |
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| (noun) important food fish on both sides of the Atlantic; related to cod but usually smaller |
Synonyms:
Melanogrammus aeglefinus |
| hadith
|
(noun) (Islam) the way of life prescribed as normative for Muslims on the basis of the teachings and practices of Muhammad and interpretations of the Koran |
Synonyms:
Sunna,
Sunnah |
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| hadj
|
(noun) the fifth pillar of Islam is a pilgrimage to Mecca during the month of Dhu al-Hijja; at least once in a lifetime a Muslim is expected to make a religious journey to Mecca and the Kaaba |
Synonyms:
haj,
hajj |
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| hadji
|
(noun) an Arabic term of respect for someone who has made the pilgrimage to Mecca |
Synonyms:
haji,
hajji |
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| hadron
|
(noun) any elementary particle that interacts strongly with other particles |
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| hadrosaur
|
(noun) any of numerous large bipedal ornithischian dinosaurs having a horny duck-like bill and webbed feet; may have been partly aquatic |
Synonyms:
hadrosaurus,
duck-billed dinosaur |
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| hadrosaurus
|
(noun) any of numerous large bipedal ornithischian dinosaurs having a horny duck-like bill and webbed feet; may have been partly aquatic |
Synonyms:
hadrosaur,
duck-billed dinosaur |
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| haecceity
|
(noun) the essence that makes something the kind of thing it is and makes it different from any other |
Synonyms:
quiddity |
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| haem
|
(noun) a complex red organic pigment containing iron and other atoms to which oxygen binds |
Synonyms:
haemitin,
hematin,
heme,
protoheme |
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| haemagglutinate
|
(verb) cause the clumping together (of red blood cells) |
Synonyms:
hemagglutinate |
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| haemagglutination
|
(noun) agglutination of red blood cells |
Synonyms:
hemagglutination |
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| haemal
|
(adjective) relating to the blood vessels or blood |
Synonyms:
haematal,
hemal,
hematal |
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| haemangioma
|
(noun) benign angioma consisting of a mass of blood vessels; some appear as birthmarks |
Synonyms:
hemangioma |
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| haematal
|
(adjective) relating to the blood vessels or blood |
Synonyms:
haemal,
hemal,
hematal |
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| haematemesis
|
(noun) vomiting blood |
Synonyms:
hematemesis |
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| haematic
|
(adjective) relating to or containing or affecting blood |
Synonyms:
haemic,
hematic,
hemic |
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| haematinic
|
(noun) a medicine that increases the hemoglobin content of the blood; used to treat iron-deficiency anemia |
Synonyms:
hematinic |
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| haematite
|
(noun) the principal form of iron ore; consists of ferric oxide in crystalline form; occurs in a red earthy form |
Synonyms:
hematite |
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| haematocele
|
(noun) swelling caused by blood collecting in a body cavity (especially a swelling of the membrane covering the testis) |
Synonyms:
haematocoele,
hematocele,
hematocoele |
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| haematochezia
|
(noun) passage of stools containing blood (as from diverticulosis or colon cancer or peptic ulcer) |
Synonyms:
hematochezia |
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| haematocoele
|
(noun) swelling caused by blood collecting in a body cavity (especially a swelling of the membrane covering the testis) |
Synonyms:
haematocele,
hematocele,
hematocoele |
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| haematocolpometra
|
(noun) accumulation of blood in the vagina and uterus |
Synonyms:
hematocolpometra |
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| haematocolpos
|
(noun) accumulation of menstrual blood in the vagina (usually due to an imperforate hymen) |
Synonyms:
hematocolpos |
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| haematocrit
|
(noun) the ratio of the volume occupied by packed red blood cells to the volume of the whole blood as measured by a hematocrit |
Synonyms:
hematocrit,
packed cell volume |
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| (noun) a measuring instrument to determine (usually by centrifugation) the relative amounts of corpuscles and plasma in the blood |
Synonyms:
hematocrit |
| haematocytopenia
|
(noun) an abnormally low number of red blood cells in the blood |
Synonyms:
hematocytopenia |
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| haematocyturia
|
(noun) the presence of red blood cells in the urine |
Synonyms:
hematocyturia |
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| haematogenesis
|
(noun) the formation of blood cells in the living body (especially in the bone marrow) |
Synonyms:
haematopoiesis,
haemogenesis,
haemopoiesis,
hematogenesis,
hematopoiesis,
hemogenesis,
hemopoiesis,
sanguification |
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| haematogenic
|
(adjective) pertaining to the formation of blood or blood cells |
Synonyms:
haematopoietic,
haemopoietic,
hematogenic,
hematopoietic,
hemopoietic |
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| haematohiston
|
(noun) a colorless protein obtained by removing heme from hemoglobin; the oxygen carrying compound in red blood cells |
Synonyms:
hematohiston,
globin |
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| haematoidin
|
(noun) an orange-yellow pigment in the bile that forms as a product of hemoglobin; excess amounts in the blood produce the yellow appearance observed in jaundice |
Synonyms:
hematoidin,
bilirubin |
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| haematological
|
(adjective) of or relating to or involved in hematology |
Synonyms:
hematologic,
hematological |
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| haematologist
|
(noun) a doctor who specializes in diseases of the blood and blood-forming organs |
Synonyms:
hematologist |
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| haematology
|
(noun) the branch of medicine that deals with diseases of the blood and blood-forming organs |
Synonyms:
hematology |
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| haematolysis
|
(noun) lysis of erythrocytes with the release of hemoglobin |
Synonyms:
haemolysis,
hematolysis,
hemolysis |
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| haematoma
|
(noun) a localized swelling filled with blood |
Synonyms:
hematoma |
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| haematopoiesis
|
(noun) the formation of blood cells in the living body (especially in the bone marrow) |
Synonyms:
haematogenesis,
haemogenesis,
haemopoiesis,
hematogenesis,
hematopoiesis,
hemogenesis,
hemopoiesis,
sanguification |
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| haematopoietic
|
(adjective) pertaining to the formation of blood or blood cells |
Synonyms:
haematogenic,
haemopoietic,
hematogenic,
hematopoietic,
hemopoietic |
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| haematuria
|
(noun) the presence of blood in the urine; often a symptom of urinary tract disease |
Synonyms:
hematuria |
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| haemic
|
(adjective) relating to or containing or affecting blood |
Synonyms:
haematic,
hematic,
hemic |
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| haemitin
|
(noun) a complex red organic pigment containing iron and other atoms to which oxygen binds |
Synonyms:
haem,
hematin,
heme,
protoheme |
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| haemodialysis
|
(noun) dialysis of the blood to remove toxic substances or metabolic wastes from the bloodstream; used in the case of kidney failure |
Synonyms:
hemodialysis |
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| haemogenesis
|
(noun) the formation of blood cells in the living body (especially in the bone marrow) |
Synonyms:
haematogenesis,
haematopoiesis,
haemopoiesis,
hematogenesis,
hematopoiesis,
hemogenesis,
hemopoiesis,
sanguification |
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| haemoglobin
|
(noun) a hemoprotein composed of globin and heme that gives red blood cells their characteristic color; function primarily to transport oxygen from the lungs to the body tissues |
Synonyms:
Hb,
hemoglobin |
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| haemoglobinemia
|
(noun) presence of excessive hemoglobin in the blood plasma |
Synonyms:
hemoglobinemia |
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| haemoglobinopathy
|
(noun) a blood disease characterized by the presence of abnormal hemoglobins in the blood |
Synonyms:
hemoglobinopathy |
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| haemoglobinuria
|
(noun) presence of hemoglobin in the urine |
Synonyms:
hemoglobinuria |
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| haemolysin
|
(noun) any substance that can cause lysis (destruction) of erythrocytes (red blood cells) and the release of their hemoglobin |
Synonyms:
hemolysin,
erythrocytolysin,
erythrolysin |
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| haemolysis
|
(noun) lysis of erythrocytes with the release of hemoglobin |
Synonyms:
haematolysis,
hematolysis,
hemolysis |
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| haemolytic
|
(adjective) relating to or involving or causing hemolysis |
Synonyms:
hemolytic |
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| haemophile
|
(noun) someone who has hemophilia and is subject to uncontrollable bleeding |
Synonyms:
haemophiliac,
hemophile,
hemophiliac,
bleeder |
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| haemophilia
|
(noun) congenital tendency to uncontrolled bleeding; usually affects males and is transmitted from mother to son |
Synonyms:
hemophilia,
bleeder's disease |
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| haemophiliac
|
(noun) someone who has hemophilia and is subject to uncontrollable bleeding |
Synonyms:
haemophile,
hemophile,
hemophiliac,
bleeder |
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| haemophilic
|
(adjective) relating to or having hemophilia |
Synonyms:
hemophilic |
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| haemopoiesis
|
(noun) the formation of blood cells in the living body (especially in the bone marrow) |
Synonyms:
haematogenesis,
haematopoiesis,
haemogenesis,
hematogenesis,
hematopoiesis,
hemogenesis,
hemopoiesis,
sanguification |
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| haemopoietic
|
(adjective) pertaining to the formation of blood or blood cells |
Synonyms:
haematogenic,
haematopoietic,
hematogenic,
hematopoietic,
hemopoietic |
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| haemoproteid
|
(noun) related to malaria parasite and having a phase in the viscera of various birds |
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| haemoprotein
|
(noun) a conjugated protein linked to a compound of iron and porphyrin |
Synonyms:
hemoprotein |
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| haemoptysis
|
(noun) coughing up blood from the respiratory tract; usually indicates a severe infection of the bronchi or lungs |
Synonyms:
hemoptysis |
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| haemorrhage
|
(noun) the flow of blood from a ruptured blood vessel |
Synonyms:
hemorrhage,
bleeding |
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