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17 words match “HEMOGLOBIN”

HEMOGLOBIN n.
matoglobulin. 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.
HEMOGLOBINOMETER n.
Same as Hæmochromometer.
OXYHAEMOGLOBIN; OXYHEMOGLOBIN n.
See Hemoglobin.
HAEMATIC a.
e; brownish red. Hæmatic acid (Physiol.), a hypothetical acid, supposed to be formed from hemoglobin during its oxidation in the lungs, and to have the power of freeing carbonic acid from the sodium carbonate of the serum. Thudichum.
HAEMOCHROMOGEN n.
A body obtained from hemoglobin, by the action of reducing agents in the absence of oxygen.
HAEMOCHROMOMETER n.
An apparatus for measuring the amount of hemoglobin in a fluid, by comparing it with a solution of known strength and of normal color.
HAEMOGLOBIN n.
Same as Hemoglobin.
HEMATIN n.
ined from blood. It exists the red blood corpuscles united with globulin, and the form of hemoglobin or oxyhemoglobin gives to the blood its red color.
HEMATINIC n.
iron salt or organic compound containing iron, which when ingested tends to increase the hemoglobin contents of the blood.
HEMATINOMETER n.
A form of hemoglobinometer.
HEMATINOMETRIC a.
Relating to the measurement of the amount of hematin or hemoglobin contained in blood, or other fluids.
HEMATOCRYSTALLIN n.
See Hemoglobin.
MELANIN n.
yer of the choroid, and elsewhere. It is supposed to be derived from the decomposition of hemoglobin.
METHAEMOGLOBIN n.
A stable crystalline compound obtained by the decomposition of hemoglobin. It is found in old blood stains.
MYOCHROME n.
colored albuminous substance in the serum from red-colored muscles. It is identical with hemoglobin.
MYOHAEMATIN n.
A red-colored respiratory pigment found associated with hemoglobin in the muscle tissue of a large number of animals, both vertebrate and invertebrate.
OECOID n.
e colorless porous framework, or stroma, of red blood corpuscles from which the zooid, or hemoglobin and other substances of the corpuscles, may be dissolved out.