carboxyhemoglobin meaning

• [Medicine]
  or chiefly Brit car·boxy·hae·mo·glo·bin n : a very stable combination of hemoglobin and carbon monoxide formed in the blood when carbon monoxide is inhaled with resulting loss of ability of the blood to combine with oxygen
  

• The effects are dependent upon the combination of carbon monoxide with hemoglobin to form carboxyhemoglobin.
• Blood . determination of carboxyhemoglobin . spectrophotometric method
• A CO-oximeter is used to determine carboxyhemoglobin levels.
• This is due to the carboxyhemoglobin being misrepresented as oxyhemoglobin.
• Carboxyhemoglobin, in carbon monoxide poisoning, gives the blood a bright red color.
• Carboxyhemoglobin formed due to inhalation of carbon monoxide.
• Most people normally have at most only a few percent of their hemoglobin as carboxyhemoglobin.
• It provides clinicians a way to measure the dyshemoglobins carboxyhemoglobin and methemoglobin along with total hemoglobin.
• Blood in carbon monoxide poisoning is bright red, because carbon monoxide causes the formation of carboxyhemoglobin.
• Pulse CO-oximeters estimate carboxyhemoglobin with a non-invasive finger clip similar to a pulse oximeter.

• "carboxyhemoglobin" meaning in Chinese: 碳氧血红蛋白，羧络血红蛋白
• "carboxyhemoglobin" meaning in Japanese: {名} : 一酸化炭素｛いっさんか たんそ｝タンパク質ヘモグロビン
• "carboxyhemoglobin" meaning in Russian: карбоксигемоглобин
• "carboxyhemoglobin" meaning in French: n. carboxyhémoglobine