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BLOOD GROUP
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Human blood cells (usually just the red blood cells) that have the same antigens
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("blood group" is a kind of...):
blood (the fluid (red in vertebrates) that is pumped through the body by the heart and contains plasma, blood cells, and platelets)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "blood group"):
A; group A; type A (the blood group whose red cells carry the A antigen)
B; group B; type B (the blood group whose red cells carry the B antigen)
AB; group AB; type AB (the blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens)
group O; O; type O (the blood group whose red cells carry neither the A nor B antigens)
Rh-positive blood type; Rh positive (the blood group (approximately 85% of people) whose red cells have the Rh factor (Rh antigen))
Rh-negative blood; Rh-negative blood type; Rh negative (the blood group whose red cells lack the Rh factor (Rh antigen))
Context examples:
This allele, which encodes glycophorin A protein, is involved in the antigenic determination of M/N and S/s blood groups.
(GYPA wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)
For a blood transfusion, the ABO blood group system is used to match the blood type of the donor and the person receiving the transfusion.
(ABO Blood Group, NCI Dictionary)
According to the study, a protein identified as EtpA and secreted by various strains of ETEC interacts with the intestinal epithelial cells of blood group A individuals causing severe diarrhoea.
(People with type A blood at most risk of severe diarrhoea, SciDev.Net)
The specific reaction pattern of erythrocytes of an individual to the antisera of one blood group; e.g., the ABO blood group consists of four major blood types: O, A, B, and AB.
(Blood Type, NCI Thesaurus)
We are not suggesting that we should be blood typing all individuals with diarrhoea, but individuals with blood group A appear to be at highest risk for severe infection and stand to benefit the most in terms of preventing the most severe form of illness, Fleckenstein tells.
(People with type A blood at most risk of severe diarrhoea, SciDev.Net)
James Fleckenstein, professor of medicine and molecular microbiology at the Washington University School of Medicine and an author of the study, says the work focused on the binding of the EtpA protein of the specific H10407 strain of ETEC on blood group A using a group of healthy volunteers in the US.
(People with type A blood at most risk of severe diarrhoea, SciDev.Net)
He explained that the study though was based on earlier work of investigators at the International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research in Dhaka, Bangladesh, who had previously shown that children naturally exposed to ETEC are more likely to get sick if they are blood group A.
(People with type A blood at most risk of severe diarrhoea, SciDev.Net)
