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

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