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112 relations: ABO blood group system, Acute hemolytic transfusion reaction, Agglutination (biology), Allele, American Association of Immunologists, American Society for Microbiology, Antibody, Anticoagulant, Antigen, Autoimmune disease, Autotransplantation, Bacteria, Barcode, Bleeding, Blood, Blood bank, Blood donation, Blood fractionation, Blood plasma, Blood transfusion, Blood type (non-human), Blood type personality theory, Carbohydrate, Choosing Wisely, Coagulation, Complement system, Coombs test, Cross-matching, Cryoprecipitate, Disseminated intravascular coagulation, Dog tag, Duffy antigen system, East Asia, Emil von Dungern, Factor V, Factor VIII, Fetus, Genotype, Glycolipid, Glycoprotein, Haemophilia, Hemagglutination, Hematology, Hematopoietic stem cell, Hematopoietic stem cell transplantation, Hemolysis, Hemolytic disease of the newborn, Hemolytic disease of the newborn (ABO), Heredity, Hh blood group, ... Expand index (62 more) »
- Antigens
ABO blood group system
The ABO blood group system is used to denote the presence of one, both, or neither of the A and B antigens on erythrocytes (red blood cells). Blood type and ABO blood group system are transfusion medicine.
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Acute hemolytic transfusion reaction
An acute hemolytic transfusion reaction (AHTR), also called immediate hemolytic transfusion reaction, is a life-threatening reaction to receiving a blood transfusion. Blood type and acute hemolytic transfusion reaction are transfusion medicine.
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Agglutination (biology)
Agglutination is the clumping of particles. Blood type and Agglutination (biology) are Hematology.
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Allele
An allele, or allelomorph, is a variant of the sequence of nucleotides at a particular location, or locus, on a DNA molecule.
American Association of Immunologists
The American Association of Immunologists (AAI) is an international scientific society dedicated to furthering the study of immunology.
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American Society for Microbiology
The American Society for Microbiology (ASM), originally the Society of American Bacteriologists, is a professional organization for scientists who study viruses, bacteria, fungi, algae, and protozoa as well as other aspects of microbiology.
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Antibody
An antibody (Ab) is the secreted form of a B cell receptor; the term immunoglobulin (Ig) can refer to either the membrane-bound form or the secreted form of the B cell receptor, but they are, broadly speaking, the same protein, and so the terms are often treated as synonymous.
Anticoagulant
An anticoagulant, commonly known as a blood thinner, is a chemical substance that prevents or reduces the coagulation of blood, prolonging the clotting time.
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Antigen
In immunology, an antigen (Ag) is a molecule, moiety, foreign particulate matter, or an allergen, such as pollen, that can bind to a specific antibody or T-cell receptor. Blood type and antigen are antigens.
Autoimmune disease
An autoimmune disease is a condition that results from an anomalous response of the adaptive immune system, wherein it mistakenly targets and attacks healthy, functioning parts of the body as if they were foreign organisms.
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Autotransplantation
Autotransplantation is the transplantation of organs, tissues, or even particular proteins from one part of the body to another in the same person (auto- meaning "self" in Greek). Blood type and Autotransplantation are transfusion medicine.
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Bacteria
Bacteria (bacterium) are ubiquitous, mostly free-living organisms often consisting of one biological cell.
Barcode
A barcode or bar code is a method of representing data in a visual, machine-readable form.
Bleeding
Bleeding, hemorrhage, haemorrhage or blood loss is blood escaping from the circulatory system from damaged blood vessels. Blood type and Bleeding are blood and transfusion medicine.
Blood
Blood is a body fluid in the circulatory system of humans and other vertebrates that delivers necessary substances such as nutrients and oxygen to the cells, and transports metabolic waste products away from those same cells. Blood type and Blood are Hematology.
Blood bank
A blood bank is a center where blood gathered as a result of blood donation is stored and preserved for later use in blood transfusion. Blood type and blood bank are transfusion medicine.
Blood donation
A blood donation occurs when a person voluntarily has blood drawn and used for transfusions and/or made into biopharmaceutical medications by a process called fractionation (separation of whole blood components). Blood type and blood donation are blood, Hematology and transfusion medicine.
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Blood fractionation
Blood fractionation is the process of fractionating whole blood, or separating it into its component parts. Blood type and blood fractionation are blood.
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Blood plasma
Blood plasma is a light amber-colored liquid component of blood in which blood cells are absent, but which contains proteins and other constituents of whole blood in suspension. Blood type and blood plasma are blood, Hematology and transfusion medicine.
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Blood transfusion
Blood transfusion is the process of transferring blood products into a person's circulation intravenously. Blood type and blood transfusion are blood, Hematology and transfusion medicine.
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Blood type (non-human)
Animal erythrocytes have cell surface antigens that undergo polymorphism and give rise to blood types.
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Blood type personality theory
The blood type personality theory is a pseudoscientific belief prevalent in Japan which states that a person's blood group system is predictive of a person's personality, temperament, and compatibility with others. Blood type and blood type personality theory are blood.
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Carbohydrate
A carbohydrate is a biomolecule consisting of carbon (C), hydrogen (H) and oxygen (O) atoms, usually with a hydrogen–oxygen atom ratio of 2:1 (as in water) and thus with the empirical formula (where m may or may not be different from n), which does not mean the H has covalent bonds with O (for example with, H has a covalent bond with C but not with O).
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Choosing Wisely
Choosing Wisely is a United States-based health educational campaign, led by the ABIM Foundation (American Board of Internal Medicine), about unnecessary health care.
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Coagulation
Coagulation, also known as clotting, is the process by which blood changes from a liquid to a gel, forming a blood clot. Blood type and Coagulation are blood.
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Complement system
The complement system, also known as complement cascade, is a part of the humoral, innate immune system and enhances (complements) the ability of antibodies and phagocytic cells to clear microbes and damaged cells from an organism, promote inflammation, and attack the pathogen's cell membrane.
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Coombs test
The direct and indirect Coombs tests, also known as antiglobulin test (AGT), are blood tests used in immunohematology. Blood type and Coombs test are transfusion medicine.
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Cross-matching
Cross-matching or crossmatching is a test performed before a blood transfusion as part of blood compatibility testing. Blood type and cross-matching are Hematology and transfusion medicine.
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Cryoprecipitate
Cryoprecipitate, also called cryo for short, is a frozen blood product prepared from blood plasma. Blood type and Cryoprecipitate are transfusion medicine.
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Disseminated intravascular coagulation
Disseminated intravascular coagulation (DIC) is a condition in which blood clots form throughout the body, blocking small blood vessels.
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Dog tag
Dog tag is an informal but common term for a specific type of identification tag worn by military personnel.
Duffy antigen system
Duffy antigen/chemokine receptor (DARC), also known as Fy glycoprotein (FY) or CD234 (Cluster of Differentiation 234), is a protein that in humans is encoded by the ACKR1 gene. Blood type and Duffy antigen system are transfusion medicine.
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East Asia
East Asia is a geographical and cultural region of Asia including the countries of China, Japan, Mongolia, North Korea, South Korea, and Taiwan.
Emil von Dungern
Baron Emil von Dungern (26 November 1867 – 4 September 1961) was a German internist.
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Factor V
Coagulation factor V (Factor V), also less commonly known as proaccelerin or labile factor, is a protein involved in coagulation, encoded, in humans, by F5 gene.
Factor VIII
Coagulation factor VIII (Factor VIII, FVIII, also known as anti-hemophilic factor (AHF)) is an essential blood clotting protein.
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Fetus
A fetus or foetus (fetuses, foetuses, rarely feti or foeti) is the unborn offspring that develops from a mammal embryo.
Genotype
The genotype of an organism is its complete set of genetic material. Blood type and genotype are genetics.
Glycolipid
Glycolipids are lipids with a carbohydrate attached by a glycosidic (covalent) bond.
Glycoprotein
Glycoproteins are proteins which contain oligosaccharide (sugar) chains covalently attached to amino acid side-chains.
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Haemophilia
Haemophilia (British English), or hemophilia (American English), is a mostly inherited genetic disorder that impairs the body's ability to make blood clots, a process needed to stop bleeding.
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Hemagglutination
Hemagglutination, or haemagglutination, is a specific form of agglutination that involves red blood cells (RBCs). Blood type and Hemagglutination are Hematology.
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Hematology
Hematology (always spelled haematology in British English) is the branch of medicine concerned with the study of the cause, prognosis, treatment, and prevention of diseases related to blood. Blood type and Hematology are blood.
Hematopoietic stem cell
Hematopoietic stem cells (HSCs) are the stem cells that give rise to other blood cells.
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Hematopoietic stem cell transplantation
Hematopoietic stem-cell transplantation (HSCT) is the transplantation of multipotent hematopoietic stem cells, usually derived from bone marrow, peripheral blood, or umbilical cord blood, in order to replicate inside a patient and produce additional normal blood cells. Blood type and hematopoietic stem cell transplantation are Hematology.
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Hemolysis
Hemolysis or haemolysis, also known by several other names, is the rupturing (lysis) of red blood cells (erythrocytes) and the release of their contents (cytoplasm) into surrounding fluid (e.g. blood plasma). Blood type and Hemolysis are Hematology.
Hemolytic disease of the newborn
Hemolytic disease of the newborn, also known as hemolytic disease of the fetus and newborn, HDN, HDFN, or erythroblastosis fetalis, is an alloimmune condition that develops in a fetus at or around birth, when the IgG molecules (one of the five main types of antibodies) produced by the mother pass through the placenta. Blood type and hemolytic disease of the newborn are transfusion medicine.
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Hemolytic disease of the newborn (ABO)
In ABO hemolytic disease of the newborn (also known as ABO HDN) maternal IgG antibodies with specificity for the ABO blood group system pass through the placenta to the fetal circulation where they can cause hemolysis of fetal red blood cells which can lead to fetal anemia and HDN. Blood type and hemolytic disease of the newborn (ABO) are transfusion medicine.
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Heredity
Heredity, also called inheritance or biological inheritance, is the passing on of traits from parents to their offspring; either through asexual reproduction or sexual reproduction, the offspring cells or organisms acquire the genetic information of their parents. Blood type and Heredity are genetics.
Hh blood group
hh, or the Bombay blood group, is a rare blood type. Blood type and Hh blood group are transfusion medicine.
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Human blood group systems
The term human blood group systems is defined by the International Society of Blood Transfusion (ISBT) as systems in the human species where cell-surface antigens—in particular, those on blood cells—are "controlled at a single gene locus or by two or more very closely linked homologous genes with little or no observable recombination between them", and include the common ABO and Rh (Rhesus) antigen systems, as well as many others; 44 human systems are identified. Blood type and human blood group systems are transfusion medicine.
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Human leukocyte antigen
The human leukocyte antigen (HLA) system or complex of genes on chromosome 6 in humans which encode cell-surface proteins responsible for regulation of the immune system. Blood type and human leukocyte antigen are transfusion medicine.
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Hydrops fetalis
Hydrops fetalis or hydrops foetalis is a condition in the fetus characterized by an accumulation of fluid, or edema, in at least two fetal compartments.
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Immunoglobulin G
Immunoglobulin G (IgG) is a type of antibody.
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Immunoglobulin M
Immunoglobulin M (IgM) is the largest of several isotypes of antibodies (also known as immunoglobulin) that are produced by vertebrates.
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Infection
An infection is the invasion of tissues by pathogens, their multiplication, and the reaction of host tissues to the infectious agent and the toxins they produce.
International Society of Blood Transfusion
The International Society of Blood Transfusion (ISBT) is a scientific society founded in 1935 which promotes the study of blood transfusion and provides information about the ways in which blood transfusion medicine and science can best serve patients' interests. Blood type and International Society of Blood Transfusion are transfusion medicine.
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Interpersonal compatibility
Interpersonal compatibility or interpersonal matching is the long-term interaction between two or more individuals in terms of the ease and comfort of communication.
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ISBT 128
ISBT 128 is a global standard for the identification, labeling, and information transfer of medical products of human origin (MPHO) across international borders and disparate health care systems. Blood type and ISBT 128 are transfusion medicine.
Jan Janský
Jan Janský (3 April 1873 – 8 September 1921) was a Czech serologist, neurologist and psychiatrist. Blood type and Jan Janský are blood and Hematology.
Japan
Japan is an island country in East Asia, located in the Pacific Ocean off the northeast coast of the Asian mainland.
Karl Landsteiner
Karl Landsteiner (14 June 1868 – 26 June 1943) was an Austrian American biologist, physician, and immunologist.
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Kell antigen system
The Kell antigen system (also known as the Kell–Cellano system) is a human blood group system, that is, a group of antigens on the human red blood cell surface which are important determinants of blood type and are targets for autoimmune or alloimmune diseases which destroy red blood cells. Blood type and Kell antigen system are transfusion medicine.
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Kidd antigen system
The Kidd antigen system (also known as Jk antigen) are proteins found in the Kidd's blood group, which act as antigens, i.e., they have the ability to produce antibodies under certain circumstances. Blood type and Kidd antigen system are transfusion medicine.
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Kidney failure
Kidney failure, also known as end-stage renal disease (ESRD), is a medical condition in which the kidneys can no longer adequately filter waste products from the blood, functioning at less than 15% of normal levels. Kidney failure is classified as either acute kidney failure, which develops rapidly and may resolve; and chronic kidney failure, which develops slowly and can often be irreversible.
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Leukemia
Leukemia (also spelled leukaemia; pronounced) is a group of blood cancers that usually begin in the bone marrow and produce high numbers of abnormal blood cells.
Lewis antigen system
The Lewis antigen system is a human blood group system. Blood type and Lewis antigen system are transfusion medicine.
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Liver
The liver is a major metabolic organ exclusively found in vertebrate animals, which performs many essential biological functions such as detoxification of the organism, and the synthesis of proteins and various other biochemicals necessary for digestion and growth.
Ludwik Hirszfeld
Ludwik Hirszfeld (5 August 1884 – 7 March 1954) was a Polish microbiologist and serologist.
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Lymphoma
Lymphoma is a group of blood and lymph tumors that develop from lymphocytes (a type of white blood cell). Blood type and Lymphoma are Hematology.
Malaria
Malaria is a mosquito-borne infectious disease that affects vertebrates.
Malignancy
Malignancy is the tendency of a medical condition to become progressively worse; the term is most familiar as a characterization of cancer.
McLeod syndrome
McLeod syndrome is an X-linked recessive genetic disorder that may affect the blood, brain, peripheral nerves, muscle, and heart.
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Medical University of Vienna
The Medical University of Vienna (German: Medizinische Universität Wien) is a public university located in Vienna, Austria.
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Mendelian inheritance
Mendelian inheritance (also known as Mendelism) is a type of biological inheritance following the principles originally proposed by Gregor Mendel in 1865 and 1866, re-discovered in 1900 by Hugo de Vries and Carl Correns, and later popularized by William Bateson.
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Microscope
A microscope is a laboratory instrument used to examine objects that are too small to be seen by the naked eye.
MNS antigen system
The MNS antigen system is a human blood group system based upon two genes (glycophorin A and glycophorin B) on chromosome 4. Blood type and MNS antigen system are transfusion medicine.
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Moral character
Moral character or character (derived from) is an analysis of an individual's steady moral qualities.
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National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM), also known as the National Academies, is a congressionally chartered organization that serves as the collective scientific national academy of the United States.
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National Center for Biotechnology Information
The National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) is part of the United States National Library of Medicine (NLM), a branch of the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
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National Health Service
The National Health Service (NHS) is the umbrella term for the publicly funded healthcare systems of the United Kingdom, comprising the NHS in England, NHS Scotland and NHS Wales.
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National Institute for Health and Care Excellence
The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) is an executive non-departmental public body, in England, of the Department of Health and Social Care, that publishes guidelines in four areas.
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National Institutes of Health
The National Institutes of Health, commonly referred to as NIH, is the primary agency of the United States government responsible for biomedical and public health research.
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Natural selection
Natural selection is the differential survival and reproduction of individuals due to differences in phenotype.
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P1PK blood group system
P1PK (formerly: P) is a human blood group system (International Society of Blood Transfusion system 003) based upon the A4GALT gene on chromosome 22. Blood type and P1PK blood group system are transfusion medicine.
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Personality psychology
Personality psychology is a branch of psychology that examines personality and its variation among individuals.
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Phenotype
In genetics, the phenotype is the set of observable characteristics or traits of an organism.
Philip Levine (physician)
Philip Levine (August 10, 1900 – October 18, 1987) was an immuno-hematologist whose clinical research advanced knowledge on the Rhesus factor, Hemolytic disease of the newborn (HDN) and blood transfusion.
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Physician
A physician, medical practitioner (British English), medical doctor, or simply doctor is a health professional who practices medicine, which is concerned with promoting, maintaining or restoring health through the study, diagnosis, prognosis and treatment of disease, injury, and other physical and mental impairments.
Platelet
Platelets or thrombocytes are a blood component whose function (along with the coagulation factors) is to react to bleeding from blood vessel injury by clumping, thereby initiating a blood clot. Blood type and Platelet are transfusion medicine.
Pregnancy
Pregnancy is the time during which one or more offspring develops (gestates) inside a woman's uterus (womb).
Protein
Proteins are large biomolecules and macromolecules that comprise one or more long chains of amino acid residues.
Pseudoscience
Pseudoscience consists of statements, beliefs, or practices that claim to be both scientific and factual but are incompatible with the scientific method.
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Recombinant DNA
Recombinant DNA (rDNA) molecules are DNA molecules formed by laboratory methods of genetic recombination (such as molecular cloning) that bring together genetic material from multiple sources, creating sequences that would not otherwise be found in the genome.
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Red blood cell
Red blood cells (RBCs), referred to as erythrocytes (with -cyte translated as 'cell' in modern usage) in academia and medical publishing, also known as red cells, erythroid cells, and rarely haematids, are the most common type of blood cell and the vertebrate's principal means of delivering oxygen to the body tissues—via blood flow through the circulatory system.
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Rh blood group system
The Rh blood group system is a human blood group system. Blood type and Rh blood group system are blood and transfusion medicine.
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Rh disease
Rh disease (also known as rhesus isoimmunization, Rh (D) disease, or rhesus incompatibility, and blue baby disease) is a type of hemolytic disease of the fetus and newborn (HDFN). Blood type and rh disease are transfusion medicine.
Rho(D) immune globulin
Rho(D) immune globulin (RhIG) is a medication used to prevent RhD isoimmunization in mothers who are RhD negative and to treat idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura (ITP) in people who are Rh positive. Blood type and Rho(D) immune globulin are transfusion medicine.
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Rockefeller University
The Rockefeller University is a private biomedical research and graduate-only university in New York City, New York.
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Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists
The Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (RCOG) is a professional association based in London, United Kingdom.
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Serum (blood)
Serum is the fluid and solvent component of blood which does not play a role in clotting. Blood type and Serum (blood) are blood.
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Shock (circulatory)
Shock is the state of insufficient blood flow to the tissues of the body as a result of problems with the circulatory system.
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South Korea
South Korea, officially the Republic of Korea (ROK), is a country in East Asia.
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SS blood group tattoo
SS blood group tattoos (Blutgruppentätowierung) were worn by members of the Waffen-SS in Nazi Germany during World War II to identify the individual's blood type.
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Surgeon
In medicine, a surgeon is a medical doctor who performs surgery.
Tattoo
A tattoo is a form of body modification made by inserting tattoo ink, dyes, and/or pigments, either indelible or temporary, into the dermis layer of the skin to form a design.
Tissue (biology)
In biology, tissue is an assembly of similar cells and their extracellular matrix from the same embryonic origin that together carry out a specific function.
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Transfusion medicine
Transfusion medicine (or transfusiology) is the branch of medicine that encompasses all aspects of the transfusion of blood and blood components including aspects related to hemovigilance. Blood type and transfusion medicine are blood and Hematology.
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Virus
A virus is a submicroscopic infectious agent that replicates only inside the living cells of an organism.
White blood cell
White blood cells (scientific name leukocytes), also called immune cells or immunocytes, are cells of the immune system that are involved in protecting the body against both infectious disease and foreign invaders. Blood type and White blood cell are blood.
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William Lorenzo Moss
William Lorenzo Moss (23 August 1876 – August 12, 1957) was an American physician and professor of medicine.
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World War II
World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a global conflict between two alliances: the Allies and the Axis powers.
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See also
Antigens
- Agglutinogen
- Alloimmunity
- Antigen
- Antigen presenting cells
- Antigenic determinant
- Antigenic variation
- Autoantigens
- Blood type
- Cluster of differentiation
- Enterobacterial common antigen
- Globo H
- HBsAg
- Heterophile antigen
- Plasmodium falciparum erythrocyte membrane protein 1
- Plasmodium helical interspersed subtelomeric protein
- Scianna antigen system
- Superantigens
- T independent antigen (TI)
References
Also known as A positive blood, A+ (blood type), A+ (blood), A+ blood, A-positive, AB Negative, AB+, AB-, ABO compatible, ABO/Rh, ABO/Rh typing, A−, B Negative, Blood Compatibility, Blood Group, Blood Type O-, Blood Types, Blood group antigen, Blood type A+, Bloodgroup, Bloodgroups, Bloodtype, B−, Human blood type, O Negative, O neg, O positive, O+, O−, Red cell antigens, Type O-, Universal blood, Universal blood donor, Universal donor, Universal recipient.