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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • abbreviation Bible Habakkuk
  • abbreviation hemoglobin

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A contraction of hemoglobin.
  • An abbreviation of His (or Her) Britannic Majesty.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • 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

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Examples

  • Identification of structure-based antisickling peptides that inhibit Hb S polymerization

    Sickle cell disease research at The Children's Hospital 2010

  • Anemia is a condition where in there is low levels of Hb in blood.

    IRON DEFICIENCY ANEMIA 2008

  • Hemoglobin Hb: An iron-containing protein that enables red blood cells to carry oxygen from the lungs to body tissues.

    You Staying Young MEHMET C. OZ 2007

  • If a normal beta gene and a sickle gene could be brought together on the same chromosome similar to something like Hb anti-Lepore: Efremov, G.D.

    The Edge of Evolution Michael J. Behe 2007

  • Rebecca Hb: “What are your thoughts and evaluations on the short story market for genre writing these days?”

    2007 April 04 « Whatever 2007

  • Rebecca Hb: “What are your thoughts and evaluations on the short story market for genre writing these days?”

    Reader Request Week 2007 #7: Short Bits II: Electric Boogaloo « Whatever 2007

  • Hemoglobin Hb: An iron-containing protein that enables red blood cells to carry oxygen from the lungs to body tissues.

    You Staying Young MEHMET C. OZ 2007

  • Hemoglobin Hb: An iron-containing protein that enables red blood cells to carry oxygen from the lungs to body tissues.

    You Staying Young MEHMET C. OZ 2007

  • If a normal beta gene and a sickle gene could be brought together on the same chromosome similar to something like Hb anti-Lepore: Efremov, G.D.

    The Edge of Evolution Michael J. Behe 2007

  • If a normal beta gene and a sickle gene could be brought together on the same chromosome similar to something like Hb anti-Lepore: Efremov, G.D.

    The Edge of Evolution Michael J. Behe 2007

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