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Hemoglobin

noun

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. Synonyms: haemoglobin, Hb.

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"Hemoglobin" Quotes from Famous Books

... Joshua tree with the cypress and then persuaded the result to grow grass instead of leaves. And the photosynthesis of those grasslike blades depended on an iron-bearing compound that was more closely related to hemoglobin than to chlorophyll, giving them a rusty red color instead of the normal green ...

— Anything You Can Do ... • Gordon Randall Garrett

... satellite data showed that the antarctic ozone hole was the largest on record, covering 27 million square kilometers; researchers in 1997 found that increased ultraviolet light coming through the hole damages the DNA of icefish, an antarctic fish lacking hemoglobin; ozone depletion earlier was shown to harm one-celled antarctic ...

— The 2001 CIA World Factbook • United States. Central Intelligence Agency.

... They developed the stuff to fight off fungus on Venus, where one part in a billion did the trick. But it was tricky stuff; one part in ten-million would destroy the chlorophyll in plants in about twenty hours, or the hemoglobin in blood in about fifteen minutes. It was ...

— Let'em Breathe Space • Lester del Rey

Words linked to "Hemoglobin" : heme, hematin, haemoprotein, red blood cell, globin, haemitin, haem, hematohiston, erythrocyte, oxyhaemoglobin, RBC, haematohiston, hemoprotein, protoheme, Hb