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Hemoglobin   Listen
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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 haematoglobulin. 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 haematocrystallin. See Blood crystal, under Blood.





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... 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 passing through the hole damages the DNA of icefish, an Antarctic fish lacking hemoglobin; ozone depletion earlier was shown to harm one-celled Antarctic marine plants; in 2002, significant areas of ice shelves disintegrated in ...
— The 2008 CIA World Factbook • United States. Central Intelligence Agency.


Words linked to "Hemoglobin" :   Hb, globin, oxyhemoglobin, haem, oxyhaemoglobin, haemoprotein, hematin, RBC, protoheme


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