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Myoglobin

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Noun

1. myoglobin

a hemoprotein that receives oxygen from hemoglobin and stores it in the tissues until needed

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Myoglobin

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noun
a protein that is the main oxygen carrier of muscle

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Myoglobin

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noun
an iron-containing protein in muscle, similar to hemoglobin, that receives oxygen from the red blood cells and transports it to the mitochondria of muscle cells, where the oxygen is used in cellular respiration to produce energy

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Myoglobin

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n.
A single-chain, iron-containing protein found in muscle fibers, structurally similar to a single subunit of hemoglobin and having a higher affinity for oxygen than hemoglobin of the blood.

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