Physical Education GCSE
Haemoglobin
What Haemoglobin means in Physical Education GCSE, as defined for OCR.
Definition of Haemoglobin
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Reference: OCR
A red protein packed into red blood cells that binds oxygen in the lungs, where oxygen concentration is high, and releases it in the tissues, where oxygen concentration is low.
Topics that use Haemoglobin
Related terms
- Aerobic respiration
- Capillaries
- cardiac output
- Double circulation
- Heart chamber and valve structure
- One-way blood flow
- Oxygenation states of blood
- Pulmonary circuit
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