hem 
They . . . brought unto him all that were diseased; and 
besought him that they might only touch the hem [revised 
version, "border "J of his garment. Mat. xiv. 85, 36. 
Tinion is dead ; 
Entomb'd upon the very hem o' the sea. 
Shak., T. of A., v. 6. 
3. In arch., the projecting spiral of the Ionic 
capital. [Rare or obsolete.] 
hem 1 (hem), v. t. ; pret. and pp. hemmed, ppr. 
hemming. [< ME. Itcmmen; < kern*, n. The G. 
hemmen, stop, check, hinder, = OFries. hemma, 
hamma, hinder, obstruct (a limb), is not cog- 
nate, but comes from the same root as E. hum- 
ble and prob. hamper^: see hamule, hamper*.} 
1 . To form a hem or border to ; fold and sew 
down the edge of: as, to hem an apron. 
The child . . . holding in her hands a shred of a hand- 
kerchief, which she was professing to hem, and at which 
she bored perseveringly with a needle. 
Charlotte Bronte, Villette, ii. 
2. To border; edge. 
He goeth walkyng vp and downe in hys habite garded 
or hemmed with hys brode phylacteries. 
J. Udall, On Luke vi. 
The snowy mountainous pass . . . 
Hems in its gorges the bed 
Of the new-born clear-flowing stream. 
M. Arnold, The Future. 
3. To inclose ; circumscribe ; limit or confine 
by an environment of any kind: with in, about, 
or around. 
See, see ! he cries, where your Parthenia fair, 
The flowr of all your army, hemm'd about 
With thousand enemies, now fainting stands. 
P. Fletcher, Purple Island, xii. 
So ... was it hemmed in by woody hills. Sidney. 
Our habits, onr established modes of thought and ac- 
tion, the manners and fashions of society, all hem us in. 
Channiny, Perfect Life, p. 78. 
To hem outt, to shut out. 
You can not hem me out of London. Webster. 
hem 2 (hem), interj. [Sometimes written hum ; 
a vocalized imitation of a sound more nearly 
represented by hm or h'm, being orig. the sound 
made in clearing the throat with a slight effort 
a guttural aspiration with nasal murmur.] 
An interjectional utterance, a sort of voluntary 
half-cough, intended to attract the attention 
of a particular person, to cover embarrassment 
by feigned indifference or hesitation, etc. Also 
ahem. 
I would try ; if I could cry hem, and have him. 
Shak., As you Like it, i. 3. 
Prig. Hem, hem .' 
Witty. He's dry ; he hems : on quickly ! 
Beau, and Ft., Wit at Several Weapons, i. 2. 
"Hem!" coughed Miss Lillerton. Mr. Watkins Tottle 
thought the fair creature had spoken. "I beg your par- 
don," said he. Dickens, Sketches, Mr. Watkins Tottle, ii. 
hem 2 (hem), v. ; pret. and pp. hemmed, ppr. hem- 
ming. [< MM&, interj.'} I. intrans. To make 
the sound expressed by the word hem; hence, 
to hesitate or stammer in speaking: as, to hem 
and haw. 
Hacking and hemming, as though our wittes and onr 
senses were a woll-gathering. 
Sir T. Wilson, Art of Ehetoric, p. 109. 
Excellent ! 'Tis Agamemnon just, 
Now play me Nestor hem, and stroke thy beard, 
As he, being 'dreas'd to some oration. 
Shak., 1. and C., i. 3. 
Mr. Bickerstaff e stood up, and after having cast his eyes 
over the whole assembly, hemmed twice. 
Addiion, Trial of Punctilios. 
II. trans. To remove or otherwise affect by 
coughing. 
Ros. I could shake them off my coat; these burs are in 
my heart. 
Cel. Hem them away. Shak., As you Like It, i. 3. 
hem 3 t, pron. See he 1 , I., D (c). 
hem-, nema-. See hemato-. 
hemachate, haemachate (hem'a-kat), n. [< L. 
htemachdtes, < Gr. "aifiaxaTw, <.'a'ifia, blood, + 
ax&T>K, agate.] A species of agate interspersed 
with spots of red jasper. 
hemacnrome, hsemachrome (hem'a-krom), n. 
[< Gr. alfia, blood, + xp<->ua, color.] The red 
coloring matter of the blood ; hemoglobin. 
hemachrosis, haemachrosis (hem-a-kro'sis), 
n. [NL. hcemachrosis, < Gr. alfia, blood, + 
xp&oif, a coloring, tinting.] Eedness of the 
blood. 
hemacytometer, haemacytometer (hem / 'a-si- 
tom'e-ter), n. [< Gr. alfia, blood, + xirof, 'hol- 
low (cell), + fitrpov, a measure.] An apparatus 
for counting the corpuscles of blood. 
hemad, haeinad (he'mad), adv. [< Gr. alfia, 
blood, + -ad 3 .] To or toward the hemal aspect 
of the body; ventrad: the opposite of neurad. 
hemadromograph, haemadr omograph (hem-a- 
drom'o-graf), n. [< Gr. alfia, blood, + &p6/io<;, 
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running, course, + ypdQeiv, write.] An instru- 
ment for recording automatically changes in 
the velocity of the blood dependent on the de- 
viation from the perpendicular on the part of a 
pendulum introduced into the blood-current. 
Chauveau and Lortet first used their h&madromoqraph 
in 18CO. Elicyc. Brit., XXIV. 97. 
hemadromometer, haemadromometer (hem"- 
a-dro-mom'e-ter), n. [< Gr. alfia, blood, + 6p6- 
'fiof, running, course, + uirpav, a measure.] An 
instrument for measuring the rate at which the 
blood moves in the arteries and veins, by means 
of the introduction of a large glass loop, when 
the rate can be seen and read off. 
hemadromometry, haemadromometry (hem"- 
a-dro-mom'e-tri), . The art of measuring the 
rate at which the blood moves in the arteries 
and veins. 
hemadynamics, haemadynamics (hem^a-di- 
nam'iks), . [< Gr. alfia, blood, + E. dynamics.} 
The hydrodynamics of the circulation. 
hemadynamometer, haemadynamometer 
(hem-a-di-na-mom'e-ter), n. [< Gr. alfia, blood, 
+ E. dynamometer.] An instrument for measur- 
ing the blood-tension; a manometer used for 
determining the pressure in any blood-vessel. 
hemafibrite, haemaflbrite (hem-a-fi'brit), n. 
[< Gr. alfia, blood, + L. fibra, fiber, + -jte 2 .] 
A hydrous arseniate of manganese, occurring, 
in orthorhombic crystals and also in globular 
forms having a fibrous structure and red color, 
at Nordmark in Sweden. 
hemagogue, haemagqgue (hem'a-gog), n. [< 
Gr. alfia, blood, + dyuyo?, leading, drawing 
forth, < ayiiv, lead.] A medicine which pro- 
motes menstrual or hemorrhoidal discharges. 
hemal, haemal (he'mal), a. [< Gr. ai/ia, blood, 
+ -al.} 1. Having the character of blood; san- 
guineous; bloody: as, the hemal fluid. Also 
hemic, htemic. 2. Pertaining to or connected 
with blood, blood-vessels, or blood-circulation; 
vascular; circulatory: as, the hemal system. 
3. Situated on the side of the body, with ref- 
erence to the vertebral axis, which contains the 
heart and great blood-vessels ; ventral : the op- 
posite of neural. In man the hemal aspect is the whole 
front of the body, the opposite of the back. In other ver- 
tebrates the under side is hemal. The epithet is chiefly 
used in this technical sense. Hemal arch, that portion 
of atypical vertebra which is on the hemal side of the ver- 
tebral axis, forming a hoop or ring to inclose and protect 
the heart and other viscera, as the neural arches inclose 
the main nervous system. The ribs and breast-bone con- 
stitute a series of hemal arches. See cut under eiutotkele- 
ton. Hemal cavity, the body-cavity or cceloma ; the tho- 
racic-abdominal cavity in general, containing the heart, 
lungs, Intestines, etc.: so called because it is on the hemal 
aspect of the body and formed or inclosed by hemal arches. 
Hemal flexure. See Measure. Hemal space, a cav- 
ity or space in which blood circulates. Hemal spine, 
(a) In Owen's terminology, the median ventral or hemal 
element of a hemal arch, as one of the segments or pieces 
of the sternum or breast-bone, articulated on either hand 
with a hemapophysis. (&) A median process of the hemal 
side of the body of a vertebra ; a hypapophysis : a rare use. 
In a half-wild rabbit from Sandon Park, a haemal spine 
was moderately well developed on the under side of the 
twelfth dorsal vertebra, and I have seen this in no other 
specimen. Darwin, Var. of Animals and Plants, p. 127. 
hemalopia, haemalopia (hem-a-16'pi-a), n. 
[NL. haemalopia, < Gr. alfia, blood, + "d/laof, 
blind, + ui/, eye; cf. hemeralopia.} Hemoph- 
thalmia. 
hemapoiesis, haemapqiesis (hem'a-poi-e'sis), 
n. Same as hematopoiesis. 
hemapoietic, haemapqietic (hem"a-poi-et'ik), 
a. Same as hematopoietic. 
hemapophyseal, haemapophyseal (hem'a-po- 
fiz'e-al), a. Same as hemapophysial. 
hemapophysial, haemapophysial (hem'a-po- 
fiz'i-al), a. [< hemapophysis, hamapophysis, + 
-al.} " Pertaining to or resembling a nemapo- 
physis. 
hemapophysis, haemapophysis (hem-a-pof'i- 
sis), . ; pi. hemapophyses, ha;mapoj>hyses(-sez). 
[NL. haemapophysis, < Gr. alfia, blood, + OTTO- 
<t>vaif, a process, as of bone: see apophysis.} 
The second element of the typical hemal arch 
of a vertebra, situated between the pleurapo- 
physis and the hemal spine, corresponding in 
part to the neurapophysis of the neural arch. 
Thus, a costal cartilage, intervening between the bony 
part of a rib and a segment of the sternum, is a hemapo- 
physis. See cut under endoskeleton. 
hemarthrus, haemarthrus (he-mar'thrus), . 
[< Gr. alfia, blood, + apdpov, joint.] In pathol., 
the presence of blood in the synovial cavity of 
a joint. 
hemastatic, haemastatic (hem-a-stat'ik), a. 
and n. [< Gr. alfia, blood, + orarucrff. causing 
to stand: see static.} I. a. 1. Relating to 
hematite 
hemastatics. 2. In med., serving to arrest the 
escape or flow of blood ; arresting hemorrhage ; 
styptic. 
II. n. A remedy for stanching a flow of blood. 
hemastatics, hsemastatics (hem-a-stat'iks), 
n. [PI. of hemastatic, hicmastatic: see -ics.} 
The hydrostatics of the blood in living bodies. 
hemat-. See hemato-. 
hematachometer, haematachometer (hem'a- 
ta-kom'e-ter), . [< Gr. alfia, blood, + E. tacho- 
meter.} An instrument for measuring the ve- 
locity of the blood by making it flow through a 
chamber in which a pendulum hangs. 
For . . . [measuring the velocity of the blood] Vierordt 
constructed the hcematachometer. 
Eneyc. Brit., XXIV. 97. 
hematangionosus, haematangionosus (hem // a- 
tan*ji-on'6-sus), n. [NL. hamiatangionosus, < 
Gr. a'i/ja(T-), blood, + ayyelov, a vessel, + v6cof, 
disease.] Disease of the blood-vessels. Also 
tiematangioiiosos, htematangionosos. 
hematein, haematein (hem-a-te'in)j n. [< Gr. 
alfia(r-), blood, + -c-in.} Ai organic principle 
(Ci a H 12 O 6 + 3aq.) derived from the coloring 
matter of logwood. It forms dark-violet crystalline 
scales, which show by reflected light a greenish hue, and 
are sometimes observable on logwood. Also hemateint, 
hcemuteine. 
hematemesis, hsematemesis (hem-a-tem'e- 
sis), . [NL. hfematemesis, < Gr. aifia(r-), blood, 
+ eftciv, vomit : see emetic.} In pathol., a vom- 
iting of blood. 
hematemetic, haematemetic (hema-te-met'- 
ik), a. [< hematemesis,h(ematemesis, after emetic.} 
Pertaining to or affected with hematemesis. 
hematherm, haematherm (hem'a-therm), . 
[< Mmnatotherma.} A warm-blooded animal ; 
one of the Hmnatotherma. 
hemathermal, haemathermal (hem-a-ther'- 
mal), a. [< hematherm, lieemaiherw, + -al.} Per- 
taining or relating to the hematherms ; hemato- 
thermal. 
hemathermous, haemathermous (hena-a-ther'- 
mus), a. [< hematherm, h&matherm, -t- -ous.} 
Same as hemathermal. 
hemathidrosis, haemathidrosis (hem"a-thi- 
dro'sis), . [NL. hannathidrosis, < Gr. alfla(T-), 
blood. + toyiMf, sweat.] In pathol., the effu- 
sion on the skin of blood or blood-stained liquid 
without gross or evident lesions. 
hemathorax, hasma thorax (hem-a-tho'raks), 
n. Same as hematothorajc. 
hematic, haematic (he-mat'ik), a. and n. [< 
Gr. aifiuTtKof, of the blood, < ai/j(r-), blood: see 
hemato-.} I. a. 1. In anat. and physiol., of or 
pertaining to, or occurring in, the blood; san- 
guineous; hemal. 
Again, who has not observed the effect of depressing 
emotions to weaken the constitution and engender A#- 
matic changes, resulting in dangerous ancemia? 
Alien, and Neural., VI. 643. 
2. In med., effecting a change in the condition 
of the blood. 
II. . A medicine which effects a change in 
the condition of the blood. 
hematics, haematics (hf-mat'iks), . [PI. of 
hematic, haimatic: see -ics.] That branch of 
physiological and medical science which is con- 
cerned with the blood. 
hematidrosis, haematidrosis (hem'a-ti-dro'- 
sis), . Same as hemathidrosis. 
hematin, haematin (hem'a-tin), n. [< NL. hai- 
matina;_<.Qr. a!/ja(r-), blood, + -in 2 . Cf. Gr. 
aifianvof, of blood.] 1. A brown amorphous 
substance associated with hemoglobin in the 
blood, also forming scales of a bluish-black 
color with a metallic luster. 
He [Mr. Sorby] has . . . shown how It [blood] may be 
detected under the most unfavourable conditions, pro- 
vided that a trace of hcematin has escaped decomposition 
or removal. J. N. Lockyer, Spectroscope, p. 86. 
2. Same as hematoxylin. 
Also spelled hematine, h&matine, 
hematinic, haematinic (hem-a-tin'ik), a. [< 
hematin, hcematin, + -ic.] A medicine, as a prep- 
aration of iron, which tends to increase the 
amount of hemoglobin in the blood. 
hematinometer, haematinometer (hem'a-ti- 
nom'e-ter), n. Same as hcmoglobinometer. 
hematinuria,haematinuria(hem*a-ti-nu'ri-fi), 
n. [Nli.ha'i/iatiiiuria, < Jitematina, hematin, + 
Gr. oiipov, urine.] la pathol., the presence of 
hematin in the urine : a term once used specifi- 
cally to designate what is now called hemo- 
globinuria. 
hematite,ha3matite(hem'a-tit), n. [<L.fcja- 
tites, (. Gr. a'tfiarirri^ (so. /USof , stone), red iron ore, 
prop. adj. , blood-like, < 01/01(7-), blood.] Native 
