An article published in Harvard Men’s Health Watch in 2012 shows heavy coffee drinkers live longer. The researchers examined data from 400,000 people and found out that men who drank six or more coffee cups per day had a 10% lower death rate.
HEMATOCRIT
hematocrit, haematocrit
(noun) a measuring instrument to determine (usually by centrifugation) the relative amounts of corpuscles and plasma in the blood
hematocrit, haematocrit, packed cell volume
(noun) the ratio of the volume occupied by packed red blood cells to the volume of the whole blood as measured by a hematocrit
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
hematocrit (plural hematocrits) (Abbreviated as: Ht or HCT)
(medicine) The percentage (by volume) of packed red blood cells in a centrifuged sample of blood
(medicine) A centrifuge used to analyze the relative amount of red blood cells and plasma in blood
Anagrams
• chromatite
Source: Wiktionary
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