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Results 1 - 5 of 5 for hemoglobin
  1. What's Blood? Video (Nemours Foundation)  
    ... shaped like slightly indented, flattened disks. RBCs contain hemoglobin (say: HEE-muh-glow-bin), a protein that ... oxygen. Blood gets its bright red color when hemoglobin picks up oxygen in the lungs . As the ...
  2. Sickle Cell Disease (For Teens) Video (Nemours Foundation)  
    ... sickle cell disease have a different kind of hemoglobin in their red blood cells than other people. Hemoglobin (pronounced: HEE-muh-glow-bin) is the part ...
  3. Blood Video (Nemours Foundation)  
    ... shaped like slightly indented, flattened disks. RBCs contain hemoglobin (pronounced: HEE-muh-glow-bin), a protein that ... oxygen. Blood gets its bright red color when hemoglobin picks up oxygen in the lungs. As the ...
  4. Genetic and Chromosomal Conditions Video (March of Dimes Foundation)  
    ... make fewer healthy red blood cells and less hemoglobin than normal. Hemoglobin is a protein in red blood cells. Sickle ...
  5. Vitamins and Other Nutrients during Pregnancy Video (March of Dimes Foundation)  
    ... a mineral. Your body uses iron to make hemoglobin, a protein that helps carry oxygen from your ...