Word Meanings - HEMOTHORAX - Book Publishers vocabulary database

An effusion of blood into the cavity of the pleura.

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• BLOODSUCKER
  Any animal that sucks blood; esp., the leech (Hirudo medicinalis), and related species. 2. One who sheds blood; a cruel, bloodthirsty man; one guilty of bloodshed; a murderer. Shak. 3. A hard and exacting master, landlord, or money lender; an
• BLOODSHEDDER
  One who sheds blood; a manslayer; a murderer.
• BLOODULF
  The European bullfinch.
• BLOODROOT
  A plant , with a red root and red sap, and bearing a pretty, white flower in early spring; -- called also puccoon, redroot, bloodwort, tetterwort, turmeric, and Indian paint. It has acrid emetic properties, and the rootstock is used as a stimulant
• EFFUSION
  1. The act of pouring out; as, effusion of water, of blood, of grace, of words, and the like. To save the effusion of my people's blood. Dryden. 2. That which is poured out, literally or figuratively. Wash me with that precious effusion, and I
• BLOODY-MINDED
  Having a cruel, ferocious disposition; bloodthirsty. Dryden.
• BLOODSHEDDING
  Bloodshed. Shak.
• BLOODINESS
  1. The state of being bloody. 2. Disposition to shed blood; bloodthirstiness. All that bloodiness and savage cruelty which was in our nature. Holland.
• BLOODWORT
  A plant, Rumex sanguineus, or bloody-veined dock. The name is applied also to bloodroot , and to an extensive order of plants , the roots of many species of which contain a red coloring matter useful in dyeing.
• BLOODSHOT
  Red and inflamed; suffused with blood, or having the vessels turgid with blood, as when the conjunctiva is inflamed or irritated. His eyes were bloodshot, . . . and his hair disheveled. Dickens.
• BLOODWOOD
  A tree having the wood or the sap of the color of blood. Note: Norfolk Island bloodwood is a euphorbiaceous tree (Baloghia lucida), from which the sap is collected for use as a plant. Various other trees have the name, chiefly on account of the
• PLEURAPOPHYSIS
  One of the ventral processes of a vertebra, or the dorsal element in each half of a hemal arch, forming, or corresponding to, a vertebral rib. -- Pleu*rap`o*phys"i*al, a. Owen.
• BLOODED
  Having pure blood, or a large admixture or pure blood; of approved breed; of the best stock. Note: Used also in composition in phrases indicating a particular condition or quality of blood; as, cold-blooded; warm-blooded.
• BLOOD
  Descent from parents of recognized breed; excellence or purity of breed. Note: In stock breeding half blood is descent showing one half only of pure breed. Blue blood, full blood, or warm blood, is the same as blood. 5. The fleshy nature of man.
• BLOODLESS
  1. Destitute of blood, or apparently so; as, bloodless cheeks; lifeless; dead. The bloodless carcass of my Hector sold. Dryden. 2. Not attended with shedding of blood, or slaughter; as, a bloodless victory. Froude. 3. Without spirit or activity.
• BLOODHOUND
  A breed of large and powerful dogs, with long, smooth, and pendulous ears, and remarkable for acuteness of smell. It is employed to recover game or prey which has escaped wounded from a hunter, and for tracking criminals. Formerly it was used for
• BLOOD-BOLTERED
  Having the hair matted with clotted blood. The blood-boltered Banquo smiles upon me. Shak.
• BLOODLETTING
  The act or process of letting blood or bleeding, as by opening a vein or artery, or by cupping or leeches; -- esp. applied to venesection.
• PLEURA
  pl. of Pleuron.
• BLOODLETTER
  One who, or that which, lets blood; a phlebotomist.
• EPIPLEURAL
  Arising from the pleurapophysis of a vertebra. Owen.
• 'SBLOOD
  An abbreviation of God's blood; -- used as an oath. Shak.
• SUBPLEURAL
  Situated under the pleural membrane.
• HALF-BLOODED
  1. Proceeding from a male and female of different breeds or races; having only one parent of good stock; as, a half-blooded sheep. 2. Degenerate; mean.
• ARTHROPLEURA
  The side or limb-bearing portion of an arthromere.
• ENDOPLEURA
  The inner coating of a seed. See Tegmen.
• DRAGON'S BLOOD; DRAGON'S HEAD; DRAGON'S TAIL
  See DRAGON
• LIFEBLOOD
  1. The blood necessary to life; vital blood. Dryden. 2. Fig.: That which gives strength and energy. Money the lifeblood of the nation. Swift.