Hematocrit
//hɪˈmæt.ək.ɹɪt// noun
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 The percentage (by volume) of packed red blood cells in a centrifuged sample of blood. countable, uncountable
- 2 a measuring instrument to determine (usually by centrifugation) the relative amounts of corpuscles and plasma in the blood wordnet
- 3 A centrifuge used to analyze the relative amount of red blood cells and plasma in blood. countable
- 4 the ratio of the volume occupied by packed red blood cells to the volume of the whole blood as measured by a hematocrit wordnet
Etymology
From hemato- (“blood”) + Ancient Greek κριτής (kritḗs, “judge, umpire”), literally “to separate blood”, coined by Swedish physiologist Magnus Blix in 1891.
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