haem

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points
9
Words With Friends
9
Letters
4
Pronunciation
/hiːm/ (UK)

Definition of haem

1 sense · 1 part of speech

noun

  1. (countable, uncountable)Australia, Canada, Ireland, New Zealand, South Africa, and UK standard spelling of heme.
    “Haem is ubiquitous, abundant and necessary for energy metabolism. Most bacteria have a haem biosynthesis pathway, but nevertheless, since haem is a major source of iron (an essential metal), microbes take up exogenous haem to retrieve iron.”

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