See Also: hypocythemia(medicine)

adze (sh) and hypocythemia (medicine)


adze (sh)




or adz

Hand tool for shaping wood.

A handheld stone chipped to form a blade, it is one of the earliest tools, and was used widely in the Paleolithic and Neolithic periods. By Egyptian times, it had acquired a wooden haft (handle) with a copper or bronze blade set flat at the top of the haft to form a T. In this form but with a steel blade, it continued to be the prime hand tool for shaping and trimming wood; the carpenter stands on or astride a log or Other piece of timber, swinging the adze like a pick, down and between the legs.


hypocythemia (medicine)


hypocythemia
Hypocytosis of the circulating blood, such as that observed in aplastic anaemia.

Origin: hypo-+ G. Kytos, cell, + haima, blood