hemoglobin
Other forms: hemoglobins
Hemoglobin is a hemoprotein in blood that helps transport oxygen, and it gives blood its red color.
Hemoglobin is the short version of the medical word haemato-globulin, which means something like "blood grains" in Greek. Like many medical terms also derived from the Greek, this one was first used in the 19th century. A doctor doing blood tests might be measuring the levels of hemoglobin in your bloodstream.
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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“fish have simpler hemoglobin than mammals”synonyms: Hb, haemoglobintypes:oxyhaemoglobin, oxyhemoglobinthe bright red hemoglobin that is a combination of hemoglobin and oxygen from the lungstype of:
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