| erythrocyte volume | Volume of circulating erythrocytes. It is usually measured by radioisotope dilution technique. (12 Dec 1998) |
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| pain measurement | Scales, questionnaires, tests, and other methods used to assess pain severity and duration in patients or experimental animals to aid in diagnosis, therapy, and physiological studies. (12 Dec 1998) |
| measurement | Determination of a dimension or quantity. (05 Mar 2000) |
| speech production measurement | Measurement of parameters of the speech product such as vocal tone, loudness, pitch, voice quality, articulation, resonance, phonation, phonetic structure and prosody. (12 Dec 1998) |
| nasion-pogonion measurement | A measurement of the bony profile of the face. Synonym: nasion-pogonion measurement. (05 Mar 2000) |
| educational measurement | The assessing of academic or educational achievement. It includes all aspects of testing and test construction. (12 Dec 1998) |
| end-point measurement | Analytical measurement at the end of a chemical reaction, as opposed to making the measurement while the reaction proceeds. (05 Mar 2000) |
| tree measurement sale | A type of timber sale contract in which the buyer and seller argree upon the volume at the time of the sale. (05 Dec 1998) |
| kinetic measurement | Continuous or frequent monitoring of the readings in a chemical reaction to determine its rate. (05 Mar 2000) |
| rate, erythrocyte sedimentation | A sedimentation rate, or sed rate , is a blood test that detects and is used to monitor inflammation activity. It is measured by recording the rate at which red blood cells (rbcs) sediment in a tube over time. It increases (the rbcs sediment faster) with more inflammation. (12 Dec 1998) |
| erythrocyte | A red blood cell. (18 Nov 1997) |
| erythrocyte adherence phenomenon | A phenomenon manifested by the adherence of antigen-antibody-complement complex to "indicator cells" (microorganisms, platelets, leukocytes, or erythrocytes), the reaction being sensitive and specific for the antigen and antibody in the complex. Synonym: erythrocyte adherence phenomenon, immune adherence phenomenon, red cell adherence phenomenon. (05 Mar 2000) |
| erythrocyte aggregation | Aggregation of erythrocytes probably resulting from changes in the negative surface charge (zeta potential) of the cells caused by the dielectric effect of proteins in the surrounding plasma, especially asymmetric macromolecules like fibrinogen and gamma-globulin. (12 Dec 1998) |
| erythrocyte aggregation, intravascular | The massing or clumping of erythrocytes in intact blood vessels in response to injury or in certain diseases, interfering with adequate blood flow. It is also called sludging of blood and intravascular agglutination. (12 Dec 1998) |
| erythrocyte aging | Senescence of the red blood cell. Lacking the organelles that make protein synthesis possible, the mature erythrocyte is incapable of self-repair, reproduction, and carrying out certain functions performed by other cells. This limits the average life span of an erythrocyte to 120 days. (12 Dec 1998) |