| haemoglobin or (US) hemoglobin (ˌhiːməʊˈɡləʊbɪn, ˌhɛm-, ˌhiːməʊˈɡləʊbɪn, ˌhɛm-) | |
| —n | |
| See also oxyhaemoglobin a conjugated protein, consisting of haem and the protein globin, that gives red blood cells their characteristic colour. It combines reversibly with oxygen and is thus very important in the transportation of oxygen to tissues | |
| [C19: shortened from haematoglobulin, from | |
| hemoglobin or (US) hemoglobin | |
| —n | |
| [C19: shortened from haematoglobulin, from | |
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| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
| a gadget; dingus; thingumbob. |
| haemoglobin | |
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| 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; "fish have simpler hemoglobin than mammals" [syn: hemoglobin] |