methemoglobin

American

[met-hee-muh-gloh-bin, -hem-uh-, -hee-muh-gloh-, -hem-uh-] / mɛtˈhi məˌgloʊ bɪn, -ˈhɛm ə-, -ˌhi məˈgloʊ-, -ˌhɛm ə- /

Or methaemoglobin

noun

Biochemistry.

a brownish compound of oxygen and hemoglobin, formed in the blood, as by the use of certain drugs.

Etymology

Origin of methemoglobin

First recorded in 1865–70; met- + hemoglobin

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methemoglobin

Then they died because the cell-free hemoglobin changed to methemoglobin which cannot carry life-giving oxygen to suffocating body cells.

From Time Magazine Archive

One of Professor Amberson's problems, before such artificial blood can be widely used, is to find a way to retard the formation of methemoglobin.

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