hemosiderin

1. 1.

   a granular brown substance composed of ferric oxide; left from the breakdown of hemoglobin; can be a sign of disturbed iron metabolism

   Synonymshaemosiderin

   Broaderpigment

Other forms of hemosiderin

plural

hemosiderins·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about hemosiderin

What does hemosiderin mean?

hemosiderin means "a granular brown substance composed of ferric oxide; left from the breakdown of hemoglobin; can be a sign of disturbed iron metabolism".

How many syllables are in hemosiderin?

hemosiderin has 5 syllables: he-mo-si-de-rin. The stress falls on "si".

What is another word for hemosiderin?

Close synonyms include haemosiderin. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is hemosiderin a common word?

hemosiderin is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.