hematocrit
English
Alternative forms
Etymology
From hemato- (“blood”) + Ancient Greek κριτής (kritḗs, “judge, umpire”), literally “to separate blood”, coined by Swedish physiologist Magnus Blix in 1891.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /hɪˈmæt.ək.ɹɪt/
Noun
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.
Translations
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Further reading
- “hematocrit”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
- hematocrit, haematocrit at Google Ngram Viewer
hematocrit on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Anagrams
Romanian
Etymology
Borrowed from French hématocrite.
Declension
Declension of hematocrit
| singular | plural | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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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