hematocrit

English

Alternative forms

• haematocrit

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)

1. (medicine) The percentage (by volume) of packed red blood cells in a centrifuged sample of blood.

   Synonyms: Ht, (abbreviation) HCT

2. (medicine, countable) A centrifuge used to analyze the relative amount of red blood cells and plasma in blood.

Translations

Translations

• Basque: hematokrito (eu)
• Catalan: hematòcrit m
• Danish: hæmatokrit (da) c
• Finnish: hematokriitti (fi)
• French: hématocrite (fr) m
• German: Hämatokrit m
• Italian: ematocrito (it) m
• Polish: hematokryt m
• Russian: гематокрит (ru) m (gematokrit)
• Spanish: hematocrito m
• Swedish: hematokrit (sv) c

Further reading

• “hematocrit”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• hematocrit, haematocrit at the Google Books Ngram Viewer.
• hematocrit on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• chromatite

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French hématocrite.

Noun

hematocrit n (plural hematocrite)

1. hematocrit

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