"buffy coat" meaning in English

See buffy coat in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Forms: buffy coats [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} buffy coat (plural buffy coats)
  1. The fraction of an anticoagulated blood sample that contains most of the white blood cells and platelets following density gradient centrifugation of the blood. Wikipedia link: buffy coat
    Sense id: en-buffy_coat-en-noun-qmAQEZAY Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header

Inflected forms

Download JSON data for buffy coat meaning in English (0.9kB)

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "buffy coats",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "buffy coat (plural buffy coats)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The fraction of an anticoagulated blood sample that contains most of the white blood cells and platelets following density gradient centrifugation of the blood."
      ],
      "id": "en-buffy_coat-en-noun-qmAQEZAY",
      "links": [
        [
          "fraction",
          "fraction"
        ],
        [
          "anticoagulated",
          "anticoagulated"
        ],
        [
          "blood",
          "blood"
        ],
        [
          "sample",
          "sample"
        ],
        [
          "white blood cell",
          "white blood cell"
        ],
        [
          "platelet",
          "platelet"
        ],
        [
          "centrifugation",
          "centrifugation"
        ]
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "buffy coat"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "buffy coat"
}
{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "buffy coats",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "buffy coat (plural buffy coats)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English nouns"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The fraction of an anticoagulated blood sample that contains most of the white blood cells and platelets following density gradient centrifugation of the blood."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "fraction",
          "fraction"
        ],
        [
          "anticoagulated",
          "anticoagulated"
        ],
        [
          "blood",
          "blood"
        ],
        [
          "sample",
          "sample"
        ],
        [
          "white blood cell",
          "white blood cell"
        ],
        [
          "platelet",
          "platelet"
        ],
        [
          "centrifugation",
          "centrifugation"
        ]
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "buffy coat"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "buffy coat"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-05 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (f4fd8c9 and c9440ce). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.