blood group
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3.2
- noun
- /blʌd ɡruːp/
- Specialized
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- And with respect to Exhibits SSA through F, did you examine those items from the murder scene and determine the blood group present on each?
- ABO blood group
Examples
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My blood group is very unusual.
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This is blood group A.
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The blood on each of those items was from blood group O.
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His sample is from blood group O.
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initial sampling resulted in two different blood groups.
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Katharina Brow would be identified as blood group B.
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This ranges from diagnosing tumours and leukaemia to cervical screening or even determining a patient's blood group.
Academic text (2012) -
The ABO blood group and Lewis phenotype in saliva were determined for persons found to be secretors as described (10).
Academic text (2012) -
Dr. D'Adamo believes that blood group O ("O for Old") was the earliest human blood type and that all humans at one time maintained this blood group before the subsequent evolutionary appearance of blood types A, B, and AB (reference 1, pp. 6-13).
Blog text (31) -
The doctor said my blood group is AB positive, which is relatively rare.
Synonyms
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A group of human blood that has the same markers on red blood cells
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a classification of human blood' is directly and predictably derived from combining 'blood' (the bodily fluid) with 'group' (a category or set), so the sense is compositional. This pattern (blood + category = blood category/type) is cross-linguistically common and would be immediately understandable to a B1 learner who knows both constituents.
Etymology
Blood group comes from early doctors who found that some people's blood reacted the same in tests, so they put similar kinds into a group. That's why blood group now means the 'type' of blood used when people 'donate' or 'receive' blood.