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haemosiderin

haemosiderin is the alternative form of hemosiderin.

Meaning of hemosiderin

Noun

hemosiderin (countable and uncountable, plural hemosiderins)

  1. An abnormal microscopic pigment, formed of granules of a complex of iron hydroxides, protein and polysaccharides, that forms in tissues of patients having an excess of iron

Forms of haemosiderin

pluralhaemosiderins

Questions about haemosiderin

What is haemosiderin the alternative form of?
Haemosiderin is the alternative form of hemosiderin.

Words near haemosiderin in the dictionary

  1. haemorrhoidectomies
  2. haemorrhoidectomy
  3. haemorrhoids
  4. haemoscope
  5. haemoscopes
  6. haemosiderin
  7. haemosiderins
  8. haemosiderinuria
  9. haemosiderophage
  10. haemosiderophages
  11. haemosideroses

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