Word | Noun | Adjective | Verb | Adverb |
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haematocrit | Yes | No | No | No |
ratio | Yes | No | No | No |
haematocrit (noun) | ratio (noun) |
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a measuring instrument to determine (usually by centrifugation) the relative amounts of corpuscles and plasma in the blood | the relation between things (or parts of things) with respect to their comparative quantity, magnitude, or degree |
the ratio of the volume occupied by packed red blood cells to the volume of the whole blood as measured by a hematocrit | the relative magnitudes of two quantities (usually expressed as a quotient) |