or chiefly Brit  hae*ma*to*crit  n 1  :  an instrument for determining usu. by centrifugation the relative amounts of plasma and corpuscles in blood  2  :  the ratio of the volume of packed red blood cells to the volume of whole blood as determined by a hematocrit .
 
 
 
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