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Potassium Clearance Measurement
Definition 1
The determination of the amount of the potassium clearance in a sample. (NCI Thesaurus)
Definition 2
A measurement of the volume of serum or plasma that would be cleared of potassium by excretion of urine for a specified unit of time (e.g. one minute). (NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)
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