any substance that increases the amount of hemoglobin in the blood
adjective
2.
of or relating to hematin
hematinic in American English
(ˌhiməˈtɪnɪk, ˌhemə-)
noun
1.
a medicine, as a compound of iron, that tends to increase the amount of hematin or hemoglobin in the blood
adjective
2.
of or obtained from hematin
Word origin
[1850–55; hematin + -ic]This word is first recorded in the period 1850–55. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: cloakroom, headhunting, heavyweight, overprint, segue-ic is a suffix forming adjectives from other parts of speech, occurring originally inGreek and Latin loanwords (metallic; poetic; archaic; public) and, on this model, used as an adjective-forming suffix with the particular senses“having some characteristics of” (opposed to the simple attributive use of the basenoun) (balletic; sophomoric); “in the style of” (Byronic; Miltonic); “pertaining to a family of peoples or languages” (Finnic; Semitic; Turkic)
Examples of 'hematinic' in a sentence
hematinic
Patient received oral cyclophosphamide and hematinic and vitamin support, along with radiation to spine.
Anis Bandyopadhyay, Mou Das, Subhra Kanti Kundu 2014, 'Metastatic primary duodenal adeno-carcinoma responding to metronomic oral cyclophosphamidechemotherapy', Indian Journal of Palliative Carehttp://www.jpalliativecare.com/article.asp?issn=0973-1075;year=2014;volume=20;issue=3;spage=239;epage=242;aulast=Bandyopadhyay. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
The etiology remains obscure, though local trauma, psychologic stress, hematinic deficiencies and immune dysregulation have been implicated.
Shilpa Sharma, Fareedi Mukram Ali, Kedar Saraf, Anupama Mudhol 2014, 'Anti-helminthic drugs in recurrent apthous stomatitis: A short review', Journal of Pharmacy and Bioallied Scienceshttp://www.jpbsonline.org/article.asp?issn=0975-7406;year=2014;volume=6;issue=2;spage=65;epage=68;aulast=Sharma. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
This study assessed the anemia statuses and hematinic deficiencies in 240 oral mucosal disease patients with microcytosis.
Yu-Hsueh Wu, Yi-Ping Wang, Julia Yu-Fong Chang, Yang-Che Wu, Hsin-Ming Chen, AndySun 2017, 'Anemia and hematinic deficiencies in oral mucosal disease patients with microcytosis',Journal of the Formosan Medical Associationhttp://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0929664616304934. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)