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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun An oxidizing enzyme containing iron and a porphyrin, found in mitochondria and important in cell respiration as an agent of electron transfer from certain cytochrome molecules to oxygen molecules.
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