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noun
The percentage (by volume) of packed red blood cells in a centrifuged sample of blood.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: medicine, sciences
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Synonyms: Ht, HCT
Antonyms: none provided
noun
A centrifuge used to analyze the relative amount of red blood cells and plasma in blood.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable
Topics: medicine, sciences
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
a measuring instrument to determine (usually by centrifugation) the relative amounts of corpuscles and plasma in the blood
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: haematocrit
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: centrifuge, extractor, separator, measuring instrument, measuring system, measuring device
noun
the ratio of the volume occupied by packed red blood cells to the volume of the whole blood as measured by a hematocrit
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: haematocrit, packed cell volume
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: ratio
History
From hemato- (“blood”) + Ancient Greek κριτής (kritḗs, “judge, umpire”), literally “to separate blood”, coined by Swedish physiologist Magnus Blix in 1891.
Across languages
11 source translations are retained for this English entry.
