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The following 2 entries include the term mean corpuscular.
mean corpuscular hemoglobin concentration
noun: the number of grams of hemoglobin per unit volume and usually 100 milliliters of packed red blood cells that is found by multiplying the number of grams of hemoglobin per unit volume of the original blood sample of whole blood by 100 and dividing by the hematocrit —abbreviation MCHC
mean corpuscular volume
noun: the volume of the average red blood cell in a given blood sample that is found by multiplying the hematocrit by 10 and dividing by the estimated number of red blood cells —abbreviation MCV
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