respiratory pigment
English
Noun
respiratory pigment (plural respiratory pigments)
- (biochemistry) any of several coloured metal-containing protein pigments which combine reversibly with oxygen and which are found in the tissues of vertebrates and invertebrates and whose role is to transport oxygen
See also
- chlorocruorin
- hemerythrin, haemerythrin
- hemocyanin, haemocyanin
- hemoglobin, haemoglobin