Relating to or containing crystals within blood, especially crystalline forms of hemoglobin or other blood proteins.
From Greek 'haima' (blood) + Latin 'crystallinus' (made of crystal). This adjective emerged in hematology to describe the crystalline structures observed in blood cells under microscopy.
Some proteins in your blood naturally form beautiful geometric crystal shapes when isolated—researchers have used these hemocrystallin structures to study diseases like sickle cell by analyzing exactly how the protein molecules arrange themselves.
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