Associations to the word «Haptoglobin»

Wiktionary

HAPTOGLOBIN, noun. (protein) A protein in blood plasma that binds free hemoglobin released from erythrocytes and thereby inhibits its oxidative activity

Dictionary definition

HAPTOGLOBIN, noun. A protein in plasma that binds free hemoglobin and removes it (as from wounds).

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats