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haemocytometer

haemocytometer is the alternative spelling 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 haemocytometer

pluralhaemocytometers

Origin of haemocytometer

From haemo- + cytometer.

Questions about haemocytometer

What is haemocytometer the alternative spelling of?
Haemocytometer is the alternative spelling of hemocytometer.

Words near haemocytometer in the dictionary

  1. haemocytic
  2. haemocytoblast
  3. haemocytoblasts
  4. haemocytological
  5. haemocytolysis
  6. haemocytometer
  7. haemocytometers
  8. haemocytometric
  9. haemocytometry
  10. haemocytopoenia
  11. haemoderivate

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