hemoglobin

English

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hemoglobin

Wikipedia

Alternative forms

• haemoglobin, hæmoglobin, hemoglobine, haemoglobine, hæmoglobine, hematinoglobulin, hematoglobulin, haematoglobulin, hematoglobuline, haematoglobuline, hematoglobin, haematoglobin

Etymology

Originally hematinoglobulin, from hematin (from Ancient Greek αἷμα (haîma, “blood”) + -in) + -o- + globulin (from Latin globus (“ball, sphere”) + -in).

Pronunciation

• (US) enPR: hēʹmōglōʹbĭn, hēʹməglōʹbĭn, IPA^(key): /ˌhimoʊˈɡloʊbɪn/, /ˈhiməˌɡloʊbɪn/
• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˌhiːmə(ʊ)ˈɡləʊbɪn/

• Audio (US):

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• Rhymes: -əʊbɪn

Noun

hemoglobin (countable and uncountable, plural hemoglobins)

1. (American spelling) The iron-containing substance in red blood cells that transports oxygen from the lungs to the rest of the body; it consists of a protein (globulin), and haem (a porphyrin ring with an atom of iron at its centre).

   Synonyms: Hb, Hgb, HGB

Derived terms

• apohemoglobin
• carbonylhemoglobin
• carboxyhemoglobin
• deoxyhemoglobin
• ferrihemoglobin
• flavohemoglobin
• glycohemoglobin
• hemoglobinase
• hemoglobinization
• hemoglobinize
• hemoglobinometry
• hemoglobinopathy
• hemoglobinous
• hemoglobinuria
• hypohemoglobinemia
• Mediterranean-hemoglobin E disease
• methemoglobin
• myohemoglobin
• nonhemoglobin
• oxyhemoglobin
• sulfhemoglobin

Translations

the iron-containing substance in red blood cells that transports oxygen

Armenian: հեմոգլոբին (hy) (hemoglobin) Basque: hemoglobina Bulgarian: хемоглобин m (hemoglobin) Catalan: hemoglobina (ca) f Chinese: Mandarin: 血紅蛋白 / 血红蛋白 (zh) (xiěhóngdànbái, xuèhóngdànbái) Czech: hemoglobin (cs) m Esperanto: hemoglobino Estonian: hemoglobiin Finnish: hemoglobiini (fi), verenpuna (fi) French: hémoglobine (fr) f Galician: hemoglobina (gl) f German: Blutfarbstoff m, Hämoglobin (de) n Greek: αιμοσφαιρίνη (el) f (aimosfairíni) Hungarian: hemoglobin (hu) Icelandic: blóðrauða n Ido: hemoglobino (io) Indonesian: hemoglobin (id) Interlingua: hemoglobina Irish: haemaglóibin f Italian: emoglobina (it) f Japanese: ヘモグロビン (ja) (hemogurobin), 血色素 (kessikiso), 血液色素 (ketsueki-sikiso) Kazakh: гемоглобин (gemoglobin) Korean: 헤모글로빈 (hemogeullobin), 혈색소(血色素) (ko) (hyeolsaekso) Macedonian: хемоглобин m (hemoglobin) Malay: hemoglobin (ms) Marathi: हीमोग्लोबिन n (hīmoglobin) Navajo: dił bee łichíʼígíí Occitan: emoglobina f Polish: hemoglobina (pl) f Portuguese: hemoglobina (pt) f Romanian: hemoglobină (ro) f Russian: гемоглоби́н (ru) m (gemoglobín) Spanish: hemoglobina (es) f Swahili: hemoglobini Swedish: hemoglobin (sv) n Tagalog: pula ng dugo Turkish: hemoglobin (tr) Ukrainian: гемоглобі́н m (hemohlobín) Vietnamese: hemoglobin (vi) Welsh: haemoglobin m, hemoglobin m

See also

• globulin
• haematin

Further reading

• “hemoglobin”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “hemoglobin”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
• “hemoglobin”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

Indonesian

Indonesian Wikipedia has an article on:

hemoglobin

Wikipedia ^id

Etymology

Internationalism

Pronunciation

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /hemoˈɡlobin/ [he.moˈɡlo.bɪn]
• Rhymes: -obin
• Syllabification: he‧mo‧glo‧bin

Noun

hemoglobin (uncountable)

1. (hematology, physiology) hemoglobin: the iron-containing substance in red blood cells that transports oxygen from the lungs to the rest of the body; it consists of a protein (globulin), and haem (a porphyrin ring with an atom of iron at its centre).

Derived terms

• hemoglobin abnormal
• hemoglobin glikosilasi
• hemoglobin glikosilat
• hemoglobin tereduksi
• hemoglobin terglikasi

Further reading

• “hemoglobin”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016

Norwegian Bokmål

Norwegian Wikipedia has an article on:

hemoglobin

Wikipedia ^no

Etymology

From hemo- +‎ globin (“from Latin globus”).

Noun

hemoglobin n (definite singular hemoglobinet, uncountable)

1. (biochemistry) haemoglobin

References

• “hemoglobin” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
• “hemoglobin” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).

Norwegian Nynorsk

Norwegian Nynorsk Wikipedia has an article on:

hemoglobin

Wikipedia ⁿⁿ

Etymology

From hemo- +‎ globin (“from Latin globus”).

Noun

hemoglobin n (definite singular hemoglobinet, uncountable)

1. (biochemistry) haemoglobin

References

• “hemoglobin” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Swedish

Swedish Wikipedia has an article on:

hemoglobin

Wikipedia ^sv

Noun

hemoglobin n

1. hemoglobin

   Synonym: (rare) blodfärgämne

Declension

Declension of hemoglobin

		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	hemoglobin	hemoglobins
	definite	hemoglobinet	hemoglobinets
plural	indefinite	hemoglobiner	hemoglobiners
	definite	hemoglobinerna	hemoglobinernas

References

• hemoglobin in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• hemoglobin in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• hemoglobin in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)
• Svensk MeSH

Welsh

Alternative forms

• haemoglobin

Noun

hemoglobin m (uncountable, not mutable)

1. hemoglobin