Crossword-Solution: HAEMOCYANIN
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Haemocyanin | n. | Same as Haemacyanin. |
We have 1 clue for the answer “HAEMOCYANIN”
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| an oxygen-carrying pigment in arachnids, equivalent to haemoglobin in mammals | 1 answer |
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Hint 1 meaning
The superficial contents of any figure; the surface included
within any given lines; superficial extent; as, the area of a square or
a triangle.
Hint 2 anagram
AERA
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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.