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zaffre (iou) and reduced haematin (medicine)


zaffre (iou)



zaffre noun. Also zaffer, saffer. M17.
[Italian zaffera or its source Old & mod. French safre, perh. rel. to SAPPHIRE.]
Impure cobalt oxide, used in the preparation of smalt and as a blue colouring matter for pottery, glass, etc.

reduced haematin (medicine)


reduced haematin -->
haem


1. <biochemistry> Compounds of iron complexed in a porphyrin (tetrapyrrole) ring that differ in side chain composition. Haems are the prosthetic groups of cytochromes and are found in most oxygen carrier proteins.

2. <prefix> haem-, eaning relating to blood.

Origin: G. Haima