Medical Dictionary

fetal hemoglobin

noun

Medical Definition of FETAL HEMOGLOBIN

:  hemoglobin that consists of two alpha chains and two gamma chains and that predominates in the blood of a newborn and persists in increased proportions in some forms of anemia (as thalassemia)—called also hemoglobin F

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