Sentences with 'haemoglobin'
Example sentences and phrases with the word haemoglobin and other words derived from it.
• « Thus, the haemoglobin molecule in the red blood cell becomes darker as it loses more and more oxygen, causing the bruise to turn blue and black. »
• « During this tissue healing process, the haemoglobin molecule is literally "broken into pieces": one part is recovered and another is converted into coloured substances such as biliverdin (green) and bilirubin (yellow). These colours are the successors to the initial blue and black of the bruise, and are the result of the body's action to restore normal blood circulation to the bruised area. »
• « In each red blood cell, 280 million haemoglobin molecules continuously unfold and retract their protein arms, like starfish, to capture oxygen or expel carbon dioxide. »
• « There is no difference between the fossil forms dating back 150 million years and the present-day limuli. In addition to its shape, this true visitor from the past has two other very particular characteristics: its blood is blue (because it has a pigment other than haemoglobin) and it has three pairs of eyes, one of which, the lateral one, has an extraordinary similarity to the functioning of the human eye. »