haemal
/ˈhiː.məl/adjective
haemal is an adjective meaning “Pertaining to the blood or blood vessels” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled H-A-E-M-A-L, and it appears about once in every 85 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does haemal mean?
adjective
- 1
UKPertaining to the blood or blood vessels.
- 2
Ventral rather than neural.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce haemal?
- /ˈhiː.məl/
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-haemal.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of haemal
- hemal
- hæmal
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is haemal?
Haemal appears about once in every 85 million words in written English, the 293,966th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Where does haemal come from?
From Ancient Greek αἷμα (haîma, “blood”).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).