Haematic \H[ae]*mat"ic\, a. [Gr. ?] Of or pertaining to the blood; sanguine; brownish red. {H[ae]matic acid} (Physiol.), a hypothetical acid, supposed to be formed from hemoglobin during its oxidation in the lungs, and to have the power of freeing carbonic acid from the sodium carbonate of the serum. --Thudichum.