[1880–85; hem- + -ic]This word is first recorded in the period 1880–85. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: automatism, barnstorm, impressionism, jackpot, regionalism-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 'hemic' in a sentence
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Examination revealed pallor, edema, hemic murmur, and palpable liver.
Anupam Dey 2015, 'Elderly female with Autoimmune hemolytic anemia', Journal of Mid-Life Healthhttp://www.jmidlifehealth.org/article.asp?issn=0976-7800;year=2015;volume=6;issue=3;spage=132;epage=133;aulast=Dey. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
The studies showed that the plants grow on organic hemic-muck soils, mucky soils and typical muckous soils.
Zofia Sotek, Małgorzata Stasińska, Ryszard Malinowski, Edward Meller, Grzegorz Grzejszczak,Bartosz Kurnicki 2016, 'Distribution and habitat properties of Carex pulicaris and Pedicularis sylvatica attheir range margin in NW Poland', Acta Societatis Botanicorum Poloniaehttps://pbsociety.org.pl/journals/index.php/asbp/article/view/4778. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)