How to Use hemoglobin in a Sentence

hemoglobin

noun
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  • Her body is making its own hemoglobin for the first time in her life.
    — Brittany Trang, STAT, 13 Dec. 2023
  • When there isn't enough iron in the diet, the body can't produce enough hemoglobin.
    — Amber Smith, Discover Magazine, 15 Dec. 2022
  • And 90% of those are caused by one of four conditions: head, heart, heat and hemoglobin.
    — Jennifer Borresen, courier-journal.com, 18 Apr. 2023
  • By the spring of 2019, her hemoglobin level was back to normal.
    — Beth Bragg, Anchorage Daily News, 10 Sep. 2021
  • Your healthcare provider can run a blood test to check your hemoglobin levels, which is part of your red blood cells.
    — Hallie Levine, Health, 22 June 2023
  • The cancerous cells possessed the new hemoglobin gene, but the insertion of the gene hadn’t caused the cancer.
    — Dhruv Khullar, The New Yorker, 22 Mar. 2022
  • At the core of the system is what's being tested, such as hemoglobin and glucose.
    — Ellen Gabler, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 11 Aug. 2021
  • Its main function is to carry oxygen in the hemoglobin of red blood cells.
    — Amber Smith, Discover Magazine, 12 Oct. 2022
  • Danahy explains that the body needs iron to make hemoglobin, the protein in red blood cells that carries oxygen throughout the body.
    — Emily Laurence, Good Housekeeping, 22 Feb. 2023
  • Just over 6% of the placebo patients had the same hemoglobin response.
    — Adam Feuerstein, STAT, 25 Nov. 2019
  • More than 40% of the hemoglobin in their red blood cells came in a healthier form that was produced by the gene therapy.
    — Michelle Cortez, Bloomberg.com, 7 Dec. 2019
  • Four atoms of iron help form the molecule hemoglobin, the protein in a red blood cell that stores and transports oxygen.
    — Sharman Apt Russell, Scientific American, 20 May 2021
  • One of the primary functions of iron in the body is its role in hemoglobin production.
    — Amber Smith, Discover Magazine, 5 Aug. 2023
  • One of the proteins is in hemoglobin, the principal component of a red blood cell.
    — Bryant Stamford, The Courier-Journal, 8 Dec. 2022
  • One of these is hemoglobin, a protein in our blood that shuttles around oxygen.
    — Katherine Ellen Foley, Quartz, 6 Aug. 2019
  • Iron is a key component of hemoglobin, which is what gives blood its red color.
    — Amber Smith, Discover Magazine, 15 Dec. 2022
  • In beta thalassemia, the hemoglobin part of red blood cells, which is supposed to pick up oxygen from the lungs and distribute it to the cells in the rest of the body, doesn’t work properly.
    — Time, 6 Aug. 2019
  • In the womb, fetuses make a special type of hemoglobin.
    — NBC News, 7 Dec. 2020
  • The disease results from a mutation in the gene for hemoglobin.
    — Adam Feuerstein, STAT, 25 Nov. 2019
  • The donor’s hemoglobin is also checked to make sure his or her blood levels are in a safe range before donating.
    — Fox News, 7 Nov. 2022
  • Iron is essential for making hemoglobin, a protein in red blood cells that carries oxygen from the lungs to all parts of your body.
    — Bethany Thayer, Detroit Free Press, 26 Feb. 2022
  • That was the lowest hemoglobin level the hospital had seen and the girl needed to have four blood transfusions.
    — NBC News, 8 May 2021
  • In such cases, Berra said, the dose can be lowered and hemoglobin will quickly revert to normal.
    — Los Angeles Times, 5 Apr. 2020
  • The adult hemoglobin is what's defective in people with one of these diseases.
    — Marion Renault, Star Tribune, 5 Dec. 2020
  • The adult hemoglobin is what’s defective in people with one of these diseases.
    — NBC News, 7 Dec. 2020
  • Lots of red blood cells: Divers do tend to have higher levels of hemoglobin, the component of red blood cells that carries oxygen.
    — Alex Hutchinson, Outside Online, 27 Feb. 2020
  • The smartphone app should be able to tell the difference between light bouncing off melanin and light bouncing off hemoglobin.
    — Katherine Ellen Foley, Quartz, 6 Aug. 2019
  • Sign up Bilirubin naturally arises when the spleen and other parts of the body dispose of heme, the core of the hemoglobin molecule in red blood cells.
    — Bymitch Leslie, science.org, 8 June 2023
  • Scientists are already well aware of the most abundant genes and proteins (think, for instance, of hemoglobin, which fills our blood and allows us to breathe).
    — Eugene Koonin, Quartz, 9 Aug. 2019
  • Researchers had to figure out how to switch hemoglobin production to the fetal form.
    — Gina Kolata, BostonGlobe.com, 11 Jan. 2020

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