blood typing
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- noun
- /blʌd ˈtaɪpɪŋ/
- Specialized
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tipificación sanguínea
- Understanding blood typing can help ensure safe organ transplants and blood donations.
Examples
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The doctor explained that blood typing is essential before a transfusion to ensure compatibility.
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In the laboratory, the technician performed blood typing to identify the patient's blood group.
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As the daughter of a doctor, you should know that blood typing is not routinely done during medical exams.
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You claimed that I was rude to her, and the only comment I addressed to her was the one about blood typing, so duh!
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Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly compositional: 'blood' (the bodily fluid) combined with 'typing' (the act of assigning a type or category) yields the process of determining a blood type. This deverbal noun formation and the related compound 'blood type' are cross-linguistically common, so a B1 learner who knows the constituents can readily infer the intended meaning.
Etymology
Blood typing comes from the idea of giving a sample of blood a label by typing its group, like writing 'A', 'B' or 'O' on a tube. So, blood typing means testing blood to find which group it is, and that helps make transfusions safe.