Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. The iron-containing respiratory pigment in red blood cells of vertebrates, consisting of about 6 percent heme and 94 percent globin.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The red substance which forms about nine tenths of the dry constituents of the red bloodcorpuscles and serves as the carrier of oxygen in the circulation. It is crystallizable, and can be resolved into hematin and a proteid residue. It has the property of combining loosely with oxygen, and this compound is called
oxyhemoglobin , while physiologists reserve hemoglobin for the deoxydized substance. Also called hemoglobulin, hematoglobin, hematoglobulin, hematocrystallin, chromatin, and cruorin.
Wiktionary
- n. The iron-containing substance in red blood cells that transports oxygen from the lungs to the rest of the body; it consists of a protein (globulin), and haem (a porphyrin ring with an atom of iron at its centre).
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. Same as hemoglobin.
- n. (Physiol.) The normal coloring matter of the red blood corpuscles of vertebrate animals. It is composed of hematin and globulin, and is also called
hæmatoglobulin . In arterial blood, it is always combined with oxygen, and is then called oxyhemoglobin. It crystallizes under different forms from different animals, and when crystallized, is called hæmatocrystallin. See Blood crystal, under blood.
WordNet 3.0
- n. 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
- n. 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
Etymologies
- From Ancient Greek αἷμα (aima, "blood") + Latin globus ("ball, sphere") + -in. (Wiktionary)
- Ultimately short for hematinoglobulin : hematin + globulin. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“The extent to which the hemoglobin is saturated with oxygen.”
“Munich had already done significant work on the structure of hemin, the organic pigment in hemoglobin, when he synthesized it from simpler organic molecules in 1928.”
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry: The Development of Modern Chemistry
“Guidelines published in 2007 by the Society of Thoracic Surgeons say that when hemoglobin is six or under, equivalent to a red-blood-cell level below 18%, transfusions can be life-saving.”
“When hemoglobin is over 10, or 30%, a transfusion is hardly ever beneficial.”
“There are several tests suitable for determining what type of hemoglobin is made by a person's red blood cells.”
“When red blood cells are broken down, hemoglobin is released.”
“Because hemoglobin is naturally a blood protein, it is likely to be one of few exceptions to the usual method of production in milk.”
“Red blood cells are red only because they contain a protein chemical called hemoglobin which is bright red in color.”
“I’ve actually done that and while I would not call it easy, compared with the hoops people go through to purify practically any other protein getting pure hemoglobin is a stone cinch.”
“Another interesting hemoglobin mutation that I won’t discuss is called hemoglobin E.”
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