Haematocrit - Definition
haematocrit
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: hematocrit, haematocrit, packed cell
volume]
2: a measuring instrument to determine (usually by
centrifugation) the relative amounts of corpuscles and plasma
in the blood [syn: hematocrit, haematocrit]