histohaematin

English

Alternative forms

• histohematin

Etymology

From histo- +‎ haematin.

Noun

histohaematin (plural histohaematins)

1. (biology, dated) One of a class of respiratory pigments, widely distributed in the animal kingdom, capable of ready oxidation and reduction.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “histohaematin”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)