Defenition of the word hematocrit
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Defenition of the word hematocrit
- a measuring instrument to determine (usually by centrifugation) the relative amounts of corpuscles and plasma in the blood
- the ratio of the volume occupied by packed red blood cells to the volume of the whole blood as measured by a hematocrit
Hypernyms for the word hematocrit
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- centrifuge
- extractor
- measuring device
- measuring instrument
- measuring system
- ratio
- separator
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