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Hematocrit measures the percentage of a person's total blood volume that consists of red blood cells. Red blood cell indices are calculations that provide information on the physical characteristics of the RBCs: Mean corpuscular volume (MCV) is a measurement of the average size of a single red blood cell.
The CBC tests for the amount of RBCs, hemoglobin, hematocrit, reticulocytes, mean corpuscular volume, mean corpuscular hemoglobin and mean corpuscular hemoglobin concentration. Usually, platelets will also be checked with the CBC. Red blood cells: RBCs are the number of erythrocytes in 1 cubic mm of whole blood. The RBC count will be low with iron deficiency, blood loss, hemolysis and bone marrow suppression.