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.

Derived terms

• microhematocrit

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”, in Google Books Ngram Viewer.
• hematocrit on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• chromatite

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French hématocrite.

Noun

hematocrit n (plural hematocrite)

1. hematocrit

Declension

	singular			plural
	indefinite	definite		indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	hematocrit	hematocritul		hematocrite	hematocritele
genitive-dative	hematocrit	hematocritului		hematocrite	hematocritelor
vocative	hematocritule			hematocritelor