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hematocrit

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Noun

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

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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haematocrit packed cell volume

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