Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun oxyhemoglobin

1 sense of oxyhemoglobin

Sense 1
oxyhemoglobin, oxyhaemoglobin -- (the bright red hemoglobin that is a combination of hemoglobin and oxygen from the lungs; "oxyhemoglobin transports oxygen to the cells of the body")
       => hemoglobin, haemoglobin, Hb -- (a hemoprotein composed of globin and heme that gives red blood cells their characteristic color; function primarily to transport oxygen from the lungs to the body tissues; "fish have simpler hemoglobin than mammals")