ECV

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ECV

1. (international standards, historical) ISO 4217 currency code for the former Ecuadorian Unidad de Valor Constante; a currency used from 1993 to 2000.

English

Noun

ECV (countable and uncountable, plural ECVs)

1. (biology) Initialism of extracellular volume, the volume of fluid, etc., in an organism that is outside the organism's cells.
2. (physiology) Initialism of effective circulating volume, the volume of arterial blood effectively perfusing tissue.
3. (medicine) Initialism of external cephalic version, a method of manually repositioning a foetus to avoid a breech birth.

Anagrams

• CVE, EVC, VEC