Hematocrit

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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  hematocrit
       n 1: the ratio of the volume occupied by packed red blood cells
            to the volume of the whole blood as measured by a
            hematocrit [syn: {haematocrit}, {packed cell volume}]
       2: a measuring instrument to determine (usually by
          centrifugation) the relative amounts of corpuscles and


          plasma in the blood [syn: {haematocrit}]