myoglobin
noun
myoglobin is a noun meaning “A small globular protein, containing a heme group, that carries oxygen to muscles” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled M-Y-O-G-L-O-B-I-N, and it appears about once in every 10 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of myoglobin is myoglobins.
What does myoglobin mean?
noun
- 1
A small globular protein, containing a heme group, that carries oxygen to muscles.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of myoglobin
- myoglobins plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is myoglobin?
Myoglobin appears about once in every 10 million words in written English, the 95,993rd most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Myoglobin in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense small globular protein:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | myoglobine |
| German | Myoglobin |
| Portuguese | mioglobina |
| Spanish | mioglobina |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.