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Webster's 1913 Dictionary

HEMATOID

Hem "a *toid, a. Etym: [Hemato- + -oid.] (Physiol.)

 

Defn: Resembling blood.

 

HEMATOIDIN

Hem `a *toid "in, n. (Physiol. Chem. )

 

Defn: A crystalline or amorphous pigment, free from iron, formed from hematin in old blood stains, and in old hemorrhages in the body. It resembles bilirubin. When present in the corpora lutea it is called hæmolutein.