Haemocyanin Sentence Examples

An important nucleo-proteid is haemoglobulin or haemoglobin, the colouring matter of the red blood corpuscles of vertebrates; a related substance, haemocyanin, in which the iron of haemoglobin is replaced by copper, occurs in the blood of cephalopods and crayfish.

The blood-corpuscles are large amoebiform cells, and the blood-plasma is coloured blue by haemocyanin.

Not only are the blood corpuscles of Limulus more like in form and granulation to those of Scorpio than to those of any Crustacean, but the fluid is in both animals strongly impregnated with the blue-coloured respiratory proteid, haemocyanin.

It may be coloured blue by haemocyanin, a respiratory compound containing copper.