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Add a liquid to the blood that can't be transported out of the lining of the blood vessels. Give it time to spread through the body. Then, take a blood sample and measure the percentage of the liquid in the blood. From the result, the blood volume can be estimated.

total blood volume = ((1 - percentage)/percentage) x amount of liquid added

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Blood volume can be indirectly estimated by measuring the hematocrit level, which represents the proportion of red blood cells in the blood. Another indirect method is through dilution techniques using a known volume of a tracer substance that gets evenly distributed in the blood plasma, allowing for calculation of the total blood volume based on the dilution factor.

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