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Haematocrit

nounid 69157·updated May 18, 2026
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a measuring instrument to determine (usually by centrifugation) the relative amounts of corpuscles and plasma in the blood

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synonym
hematocrit
plural
Haematocrits
possessive
Haematocrit's
pluralpossessive
Haematocrits'

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§1
a measuring instrument to determine (usually by centrifugation) the relative amounts of corpuscles and plasma in the blood
§2
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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