hematocrit

Other forms of hematocrit

plural

hematocrits·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about hematocrit

What does hematocrit mean?

hematocrit means "the ratio of the volume occupied by packed red blood cells to the volume of the whole blood as measured by a hematocrit". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in hematocrit?

hematocrit has 4 syllables: he-ma-to-crit. The stress falls on "ma".

What is another word for hematocrit?

Close synonyms include haematocrit, packed cell volume, haematocrit. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is hematocrit a common word?

hematocrit is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.