hematocrit
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]| singular | plural | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | ||
| nominative-accusative | hematocrit | hematocritul | hematocrite | hematocritele | |
| genitive-dative | hematocrit | hematocritului | hematocrite | hematocritelor | |
| vocative | hematocritule | hematocritelor | |||
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