hematocrit
he·ma·toc·rit
noun
1.
2.
a measuring instrument to determine (usually by centrifugation) the relative amounts of corpuscles and plasma in the blood
Origin
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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