hematocrit, n.
(hematocrits)
(hematocrits)
a measuring instrument to determine (usually by centrifugation) the relative amounts of corpuscles and plasma in the blood
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haematocrit hematocrit
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the ratio of the volume occupied by packed red blood cells to the volume of the whole blood as measured by a hematocrit
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haematocrit hematocrit packed cell volume
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