Having the character of blood; sanguineous; bloody: as, the hemal fluid. Also hemic, hæmic.Pertaining to or connected with blood, blood-vessels, or blood-circulation; vascular; circulatory: as, the hemal system.Situated on the side of the body, with reference to the vertebral axis, which contains the heart and great blood-vessels; ventral: the opposite of neural.A median process of the hemal side of the body of a vertebra; a hypapophysis: a rare use.n. Same as hemal spine. Caudal with long neurals and hæmals.