hemoconcentration

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hemo- +‎ concentration

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hemoconcentration (countable and uncountable, plural hemoconcentrations)

  1. (pathology) An increase in the amount of large molecules and other solid elements in the blood, as a result of a change in water balance
    • 2015 July 6, “Changes in Serum Levels of Myokines and Wnt-Antagonists after an Ultramarathon Race”, in PLOS ONE[1], →DOI:
      We thus cannot exclude that the increase of follistatin immediately after the race at least in part was due to hemoconcentration.

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