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respiratory pigments

respiratory pigments is the plural of respiratory pigment.

Meaning of respiratory pigment

Noun

respiratory pigment (plural respiratory pigments)

  1. any of several coloured metal-containing protein pigments which combine reversibly with oxygen and which are found in the tissues of vertebrates and invertebrates and whose role is to transport oxygen

Questions about respiratory pigments

What is respiratory pigments the plural of?
Respiratory pigments is the plural of respiratory pigment.

Words near respiratory pigments in the dictionary

  1. respiratory
  2. respiratory bronchiole
  3. respiratory bronchioles
  4. respiratory distress
  5. respiratory pigment
  6. respiratory pigments
  7. respiratory practitioner
  8. respiratory practitioners
  9. respiratory rate
  10. respiratory rates
  11. respiratory syncytial virus

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