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Creatinine Clearance
Definition 1
The determination of the clearance of endogenous creatinine, used for evaluating the glomerular filtration rate. (NCI Thesaurus)
Definition 2
A measurement of the volume of serum or plasma that would be cleared of creatinine by excretion of urine for a specified unit of time (e.g. one minute). (NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)
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