GLOBIN

globin, hematohiston, haematohiston

(noun) a colorless protein obtained by removing heme from hemoglobin; the oxygen carrying compound in red blood cells

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Noun

globin (plural globins)

(protein) Any globular protein that incorporates a globin fold.

(protein) One of several polypeptides that are the protein components of haemoglobin or myoglobin.

Anagrams

• Boglin, Boling, GOBLin, goblin, lobing

Source: Wiktionary



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Word of the Day

24 December 2024

INTUITIVELY

(adverb) in an intuitive manner; “inventors seem to have chosen intuitively a combination of explosive and aggressive sounds as warning signals to be used on automobiles”


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Coffee Trivia

The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.

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