Iron as a component of living tissue or the diet.

The iron contained in the blood; spec. the concentration of this (mainly in haemoglobin in the red blood cells).

A plasma glycoprotein which is converted into thrombin in the clotting process and is synthesized in the liver by a vitamin K-dependent pathway.

A precursor of thrombin; spec. = prothrombin, n. Now historical and rare.

An extremely small particle of unhydrolysed fat visible in the blood after the ingestion of fat.

A greenish peroxidase occurring in granules within myelocytes and in some of the blood cells into which they differentiate, esp. neutrophils.

Any plasma protein with an electrophoretic mobility which (in some techniques of electrophoresis) is slightly greater than that of albumin; spec. a…

a blood-borne protein from which the substance of the vitellus is made.