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SED RATE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The rate at which red blood cells settle out in a tube of blood under standardized conditions; a high rate usually indicates the presence of inflammation
Synonyms:
erythrocyte sedimentation rate; ESR; sed rate; sedimentation rate
Classified under:
Nouns denoting time and temporal relations
Hypernyms ("sed rate" is a kind of...):
rate (a magnitude or frequency relative to a time unit)