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haematocytometer

haematocytometer is the alternative form of hemocytometer.

Meaning of hemocytometer

Noun

hemocytometer (plural hemocytometers)

  1. A device used to count the number of blood cells in a volume of blood.
    • And helping to record data of such exacting minuteness, Patrick felt, as he often felt in the midst of such experiments, which were essentially the counting of microbe cells with a high-tech hemocytometer, as if he were an intruder into a world that, if he descended into it for a split second...1996, Joyce Carol Oates, “Snow after Easter”, in We Were the Mulvaneys, Plume, →ISBN, page 206

Forms of haematocytometer

pluralhaematocytometers

Questions about haematocytometer

What is haematocytometer the alternative form of?
Haematocytometer is the alternative form of hemocytometer.

Words near haematocytometer in the dictionary

  1. haematocrits
  2. haematocryal
  3. haematocrystallin
  4. haematocyte
  5. haematocytes
  6. haematocytometer
  7. haematocytometers
  8. haematocytometric
  9. haematodocha
  10. haematodochae
  11. haematoencephalic

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