Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A blue to blackish-brown compound, C34H32N4O4·FeOH, formed in the decomposition of hemoglobin.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A brown amorphous substance derived from hemoglobin in the blood, also forming scales of a bluish-black color with a metallic luster.
- noun Same as
hematoxylin . - noun Also spelled hematine, hæmatine.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Hematoxylin.
- noun (Physiol. Chem.) A bluish black, amorphous substance containing iron and obtained 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.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun
Hemoglobin withiron inferric state. - noun
Hemin .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a complex red organic pigment containing iron and other atoms to which oxygen binds
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Examples
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I have my pen out, ready to arrange for some further tests and write an order for hematin, to help reduce the demand for heme and thereby lower porphyrin levels.
After the Diagnosis MD Julian Seifter 2010
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Menstrual blood loss was measured by alkaline-hematin assay (n = 12, > 80 ml (HMB); n = 17, < 80 ml).
The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism Current Issue 2009
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E. tarda has developed abilities to utilize hemin, hemoglobin and hematin as iron source as well as siderophore-mediated iron uptake mechanism
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