hematocrit
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English
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From hemato- (“blood”) + Ancient Greek κριτής (kritḗs, “judge, umpire”), literally “to separate blood”, coined by Swedish physiologist Magnus Blix in 1891.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]hematocrit (countable and uncountable, plural hematocrits)
- (medicine) The percentage (by volume) of packed red blood cells in a centrifuged sample of blood.
- (medicine, countable) A centrifuge used to analyze the relative amount of red blood cells and plasma in blood.
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Further reading
[edit]- “hematocrit”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
- hematocrit, haematocrit at the Google Books Ngram Viewer.
hematocrit on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Anagrams
[edit]Romanian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from French hématocrite.
Noun
[edit]hematocrit n (plural hematocrite)
Declension
[edit]Declension of hematocrit
singular | plural | |||
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indefinite articulation | definite articulation | indefinite articulation | definite articulation | |
nominative/accusative | (un) hematocrit | hematocritul | (niște) hematocrite | hematocritele |
genitive/dative | (unui) hematocrit | hematocritului | (unor) hematocrite | hematocritelor |
vocative | hematocritule | hematocritelor |
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