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Erythrocyte sedimentation rate — Diagnostics A rack of ESR tubes. MeSH … Wikipedia
Westergren sedimentation rate — n WESTERGREN ERYTHROCYTE SEDIMENTATION RATE * * * Westergren method … Medical dictionary
erythrocyte sedimentation rate — (ESR) the rate at which erythrocytes precipitate out from a well mixed specimen of venous blood, measured by the distance the top of the column of erythrocytes falls in a given time interval under specified conditions; an increase in rate is… … Medical dictionary
Westergren method — n a method for estimating the sedimentation rate of red blood cells in fluid blood by observing the level to which the cells fall in one hour in a tube of 2 or 2.5 mm bore that is 300 mm long and is graduated downward in millimeters from 0 to 200 … Medical dictionary
Westergren tube — a straight glass pipette 30 cm long and 2.5 mm in internal diameter, marked in millimeters from 0 to 200 and used in the Westergren method of determining the erythrocyte sedimentation rate … Medical dictionary
method — The mode or manner or orderly sequence of events of a process or procedure. SEE ALSO: fixative, operation, procedure, stain, technique. [G. methodos; fr. meta, after, + hodos, way] Abell Kendall m. a … Medical dictionary
