Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Of or relating to the blood or blood vessels.
- adjective Relating to or located on the side of the body that contains the heart and principal blood vessels.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
hemal spine . Caudal with long neurals and hæmals. - Having the character of blood; sanguineous; bloody: as, the hemal fluid. Also hemic, hæmic.
- Pertaining to or connected with blood, blood-vessels, or blood-circulation; vascular; circulatory: as, the hemal system.
- Situated on the side of the body, with reference to the vertebral axis, which contains the heart and great blood-vessels; ventral: the opposite of
neural . - A median process of the hemal side of the body of a vertebra; a hypapophysis: a rare use.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Relating to the blood or blood vessels; pertaining to, situated in the region of, or on the side with, the heart and great blood vessels; -- opposed to
neural . - adjective (Anat.) the ventral arch in a segment of the spinal skeleton, formed by vertebral processes or ribs.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Alternative form of
haemal .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective relating to the blood vessels or blood
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Examples
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Hemolymph nodes or glands and hemal nodes which are so abundant in some mammals are probably not present in man.
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_Emciob noh hemal ɔeemal_, faulty orthography for _noh emel, ɔeemel_, the latter syncopated from _ɔeɔemel_.
The Maya Chronicles Brinton's Library Of Aboriginal American Literature, Number 1 Various 1868
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Can ahau u kaba katun; emciob [178-3] noh hemal, [178-4] ɔeemal, u kabaob lae.
The Maya Chronicles Brinton's Library Of Aboriginal American Literature, Number 1 Various 1868
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The first 14 caudals have associated hemal arches or chevron bones.
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