haematoplastic
English
Alternative forms
- hematoplastic
Etymology
haemato- + plastic
Adjective
haematoplastic (not comparable)
- (biology) blood-formative; applied to a substance in early foetal life that gradually breaks up into blood vessels
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for haematoplastic in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)