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myochrome

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Etymology

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From myo- +‎ -chrome.

Noun

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myochrome (uncountable)

  1. (biochemistry) A coloured albuminous substance in the serum from red-coloured muscles, identical with hemoglobin.

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 myochrome”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)