Synonyms for blood type
blood type

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1. blood typenoun

   Synonyms:
   blood group

2. blood typenoun

   A classification of blood that is based on the presence or absence of antigens in the red blood cells of an individual. For the purposes of blood transfusion three antigens referred to as A, B and RhD (out of a total of 29) are the most important. Based on their presence the human blood can be classified to A, AB, B, and O blood types which are further divided to Rh positive or negative.

   Synonyms:
   blood group

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1. blood group, blood typenoun

   human blood cells (usually just the red blood cells) that have the same antigens

   Synonyms:
   blood group

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1. blood type

   Synonyms:
   Blood group
   

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1. Massimo Franchini:

   Belonging to a non-O blood type represents only a risk factor (among many others), and actually, there are many and many millions of people worldwide with non-O blood type that do not have, and will never develop, any of these diseases, thus, in my opinion, a healthy lifestyle still remains the main factor able to influence the health status of an individual.

2. Amesh Adalja:

   We need to figure out the mechanism and understand it at the molecular level to be able to say for sure how this is occurring -- that this is really the O blood type and not something that kind of tracks with O blood type, we're starting to see enough now that I think it's an important research question to answer.