rate law Hill-type rate law, generalised form <n0:math xmlns:n0="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"> <n2:semantics xmlns:n2="http://biomodels.net/SBO/" definitionURL="http://biomodels.net/SBO/#SBO:0000062"> <n2:lambda> <n2:bvar><n2:ci definitionURL="http://biomodels.net/SBO/#SBO:0000186">Vmax</n2:ci></n2:bvar> <n2:bvar><n2:ci definitionURL="http://biomodels.net/SBO/#SBO:0000509">R</n2:ci></n2:bvar> <n2:bvar><n2:ci definitionURL="http://biomodels.net/SBO/#SBO:0000191">K</n2:ci></n2:bvar> <n2:bvar><n2:ci definitionURL="http://biomodels.net/SBO/#SBO:0000190">h</n2:ci></n2:bvar> <n2:bvar><n2:ci definitionURL="http://biomodels.net/SBO/#SBO:0000256">n</n2:ci></n2:bvar> <n2:apply> <n2:divide /> <n2:apply> <n2:times /> <n2:ci>Vmax</n2:ci> <n2:apply> <n2:power /> <n2:ci>R</n2:ci> <n2:ci>h</n2:ci> </n2:apply> </n2:apply> <n2:apply> <n2:plus /> <n2:apply> <n2:power /> <n2:ci>K</n2:ci> <n2:ci>n</n2:ci> </n2:apply> <n2:apply> <n2:power /> <n2:ci>R</n2:ci> <n2:ci>h</n2:ci> </n2:apply> </n2:apply> </n2:apply> </n2:lambda> </n2:semantics> </n0:math> Empirical equation created by Archibald Vivian Hill to describe the cooperative binding of oxygen on hemoglobine (Hill (1910). The possible effects of the aggregation of the molecules of haemoglobin on its dissociation curves. J Physiol 40: iv-vii).