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Hemoglobin

see synonyms of hemoglobin

Noun

1. haemoglobin, hb, hemoglobin

a hemoprotein composed of globin and heme that gives red blood cells their characteristic color; function primarily to transport oxygen from the lungs to the body tissues

Example Sentences:
'fish have simpler hemoglobin than mammals'

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Hemoglobin

see synonyms of hemoglobin
noun
1. 
the red coloring matter of the red blood corpuscles of vertebrates, a protein yielding heme and globin on hydrolysis: it carries oxygen from the lungs to the tissues, and carbon dioxide from the tissues to the lungs
2. 
any of various respiratory pigments found in the blood or muscle tissue of many invertebrates and in the root nodules of some plants

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Hemoglobin

see synonyms of hemoglobin
n.
The protein in the red blood cells of vertebrates that carries oxygen from the lungs to tissues and that consists of four polypeptide subunits, each of which is bound to an iron-containing heme molecule.

The American Heritage ® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition copyright ©2018 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

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