Semantics as a field of study also has significant ties to various representational theories of meaning including truth theories of meaning, coherence theories of meaning, and correspondence theories of meaning. Each of these is related to the general philosophical study of reality and the representation of meaning.
packed-cell volume (PCV) hematocrit. plasma volume the total volume of blood plasma, i.e., the extracellular fluid volume of the vascular space; see also blood volume. red cell volume the total volume of red cells in the body; see also blood volume.
Reference Range. Mean corpuscular volume (MCV) is the average volume of red cells in a specimen. MCV is elevated or decreased in accordance with average red cell size; ie, low MCV indicates microcytic (small average RBC size), normal MCV indicates normocytic (normal average RBC size), and high MCV indicates macrocytic (large average RBC size).