How to Use hemoglobin in a Sentence

hemoglobin

noun
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  • The body can store some iron temporarily in the form of a protein called ferritin, but if the levels dip too low for too long, so does the hemoglobin in red blood cells, resulting in anemia.
    — Lourdes Medrano, NPR, 15 Sep. 2024
  • Her body is making its own hemoglobin for the first time in her life.
    — Brittany Trang, STAT, 13 Dec. 2023
  • My hemoglobin and red blood cell counts would go up, then drop out again.
    — Rachel Stuhler, Cosmopolitan, 21 Aug. 2017
  • 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
  • The boy’s problem could be due to a fault in any part of his body’s hemoglobin disposal process.
    — Jonathan Reisman, Discover Magazine, 21 Mar. 2016
  • By the spring of 2019, her hemoglobin level was back to normal.
    — Beth Bragg, Anchorage Daily News, 10 Sep. 2021
  • Iron helps your body make hemoglobin, a protein that carries oxygen from your lungs to the rest of your body.
    — Isabel Vasquez Rd Ldn, Health, 15 July 2024
  • 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
  • The trick now is to figure out how to get a breathable amount of oxygen out of the hemoglobin solution.
    — Brendan I. Koerner, WIRED, 1 Aug. 2003
  • 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
  • Key Takeaways Without enough iron, the body can’t produce enough hemoglobin, the protein that carries oxygen from the lungs to all parts of the body.
    — Alyssa Hui, Verywell Health, 18 June 2024
  • The abnormal hemoglobin makes the blood cells crescent-shaped and hard.
    — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 16 Nov. 2023
  • One of the primary functions of iron in the body is its role in hemoglobin production.
    — Amber Smith, Discover Magazine, 5 Aug. 2023
  • Researchers gave the EPO group enough to increase their levels of hemoglobin, the part of blood that carries oxygen.
    — Carla K. Johnson, The Seattle Times, 29 June 2017
  • 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
  • The higher your blood sugar over the past few months, the more of those hemoglobin cells will be attached to sugar molecules.
    — Korin Miller, SELF, 6 Jan. 2018
  • 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
  • This medicine does not involve repairing the mutation that causes the disease –a mutation that breaks a gene that makes oxygen-carrying hemoglobin in our red blood cells.
    — Fyodor Urnov, TIME, 12 Aug. 2024

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