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Definition of Hematology

1. Noun. The branch of medicine that deals with diseases of the blood and blood-forming organs.

Definition of Hematology

1. n. The science which treats of the blood.

Definition of Hematology

1. Noun. (medicine) The scientific study of blood and blood-producing organs. ¹

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Definition of Hematology

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Medical Definition of Hematology

1. The study of the morphology of the blood and blood forming tissues. This entry appears with permission from the Dictionary of Cell and Molecular Biology (11 Mar 2008)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Hematology

Literary usage of Hematology

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Proceedings of the Society for Experimental Biology and Medicine (1903)
"Wintrobe, MM, "Clinical Hematology." Lea and Febiger, Philadelphia (1962). 19. Brecher, G., Amer. J. Clin. Pathol. 19, 895 (1949). 20. ..."

2. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1908)
"... Hematology of Carbon Monoxide Poisoning.—It is known that carbon monoxide has an affinity for the hemoglobin of the blood about 140 times greater than ..."

3. Venesection by Walton Forest Dutton (1916)
"Hematology. Hematology is of intrinsic value in medical and surgical practice. If one would be a successful phlebotomist, he must have a thorough working ..."

4. The Retrospect of Practical Medicine and Surgery: Being a Half-yearly edited by William Braithwaite, James Braithwaite, Edmond Fauriel Trevelyan (1845)
"ON Hematology. The analysis of the blood of various animals, affected with different forms of inflammatory disease, has invariably exhibited an increase in ..."

5. Syphilis; a Treatise for Practitioners by Edward Loughborough Keyes (1908)
"... Acute Syphilitic Toxemia: Hematology and pathological anatomy. The fever of early syphilis. General debility. Symptoms of local congestion. ..."

6. Medical Diagnosis: A Manual for Students and Practitioners by Charles Lyman Greene (1910)
"Hematology.—This expanding department of medicine, valuable alike to the internalist and to the surgeon, affords a means of exact diagnosis in malaria, ..."

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