Crossword-Solution: HAEMOCYANIN
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Haemocyanin | n. | Same as Haemacyanin. |
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| an oxygen-carrying pigment in arachnids, equivalent to haemoglobin in mammals | 1 answer |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
CZMEAE
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eruption
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Sentences with HAEMOCYANIN (5)
The same compound occurs in all true vertebrata, and in the blood-fluid of the worm; in the crayfish a similar substance, haemocyanin, which when oxygenated is blue, and when deoxydized colourless, discharges the same function.
Another copper-containing pigment is haemocyanin, which in the oxidized state gives a blue colour to the blood of various Mollusca and Arthropoda.
Not only are the blood corpuscles of Limulus more like in form and granulation to those of Scorpio than to those of any Crustacean, but the fluid is in both animals strongly impregnated with the blue-coloured respiratory proteid, haemocyanin.
The blood-corpuscles are large amoebiform cells, and the blood-plasma is coloured blue by haemocyanin.
This is due to the presence of a pigment termed _haemocyanin_, in which are found traces of copper and iron, the former predominating.