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cyanhemoglobin

cyanhemoglobin

 [si″an-he´mo-glo″bin]
a compound formed by the combination of hydrogen cyanide with hemoglobin; it gives the bright red color to the blood that is seen in cyanide poisoning.
Miller-Keane Encyclopedia and Dictionary of Medicine, Nursing, and Allied Health, Seventh Edition. © 2003 by Saunders, an imprint of Elsevier, Inc. All rights reserved.
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Free hemoglobin was analyzed in the samples of the blood processing experiment by using the 2-wavelength (540/ 680 nm) cyanhemoglobin method (17).
FHb was measured by the formation of cyanhemoglobin (13), using a commercially available assay (Roche Diagnostics) on a Hitachi 917 analyzer.
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