Word.ws English Dictionary

haemol

haemol noun: a dark brown powder containing iron, prepared by the action of zinc dust as a reducing agent upon the colouring matter of the blood, and once used medicinally as a hematinic.

Noun

haemol (uncountable)

  1. (dated) A dark brown powder containing iron, prepared by the action of zinc dust as a reducing agent upon the colouring matter of the blood, and once used medicinally as a hematinic.

Questions about haemol

What does haemol mean?
Haemol means a dark brown powder containing iron, prepared by the action of zinc dust as a reducing agent upon the colouring matter of the blood, and once used medicinally as a hematinic.
What part of speech is haemol?
Haemol is a noun.

Words near haemol in the dictionary

  1. haemogregarines
  2. haemohistioblast
  3. haemohistioblasts
  4. haemoid
  5. haemojuvelin
  6. haemol
  7. haemolacria
  8. haemolutein
  9. haemolymph
  10. haemolymphatic
  11. haemolymphs

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: haemol (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “haemol.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/haemol. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.