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haematocrit

hae·ma·toc·rit

uncommon uk

noun

1.

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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2.

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

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