anti-hæmorrhagic

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

anti- +‎ hæmorrhagic

Adjective[edit]

anti-hæmorrhagic (comparative more anti-hæmorrhagic, superlative most anti-hæmorrhagic)

  1. (British spelling) Obsolete form of antihemorrhagic.
    • 1843, Doctor Graham, in Provincial Medical and Surgical Journal, Henry Renshaw; Volume VI, №. 147, page 335:
      He suggested whether the anti‐hæmorrhagic properties of some of our common astringent drugs may not depend upon the gallic acid as much or more than upon the tannin which they contain, or upon the tannin becoming changed into gallic acid within the body.