Methemoglobin Definition

mĕt-hēmə-glōbĭn
noun
A brownish, crystalline substance containing ferric iron, formed in the blood by the oxidation of hemoglobin, as by the action of certain drugs or in the decomposition of the blood, and no longer able to combine reversibly with oxygen.
Webster's New World

Other Word Forms of Methemoglobin

Noun

Singular:
methemoglobin
Plural:
methemoglobins

Origin of Methemoglobin

  • Combination of meta and haemoglobin.

    From Wiktionary

  • met(a)– hemoglobin

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Methemoglobin Sentence Examples

  • A very small fraction of hemoglobin spontaneously oxidizes per day, producing a protein of a slightly different structure called methemoglobin.

  • Methemoglobin can accumulate in the blood as a result of nitrite poisoning.

  • Adverse symptoms occur when over 30 percent of the hemoglobin has been converted to methemoglobin.

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Words Starting With

MMEMET

Words Ending With

NINBIN

Unscrambles

methemoglobin

Words Starting With M and Ending With N

Starts With M & Ends With NStarts With ME & Ends With NStarts With M & Ends With IN

Word Length

13 Letter Words13 Letter Words Starting With M13 Letter Words Ending With N