blood type
- noun
- /blʌd taɪp/
- Specialized
- We have to be the same blood type.
- matching blood types
So we we list people by their blood type and by their size.
- So we we list people by their blood type and by their size.
- The murderer had B positive blood type.
- For those who are listening on to the next one, what is Niall Horan's blood type?
- But gratitude, unlike your skin color or your, or your hair color or your star sign or your blood type, it's, it's a choice, right?
- Inflammation, blood type, blood cell composition.
- Yeah, it's here's what they just came out today and they said like blood type O doesn't get it.
- There was some discussions with regard to the Black Plague being a blood type specific.
- I'll be sharing my thoughts on the blood type diet.
- Why doesn't Melanie just take the records and go, here's my hospital records, not my blood type, not if I have any underlying things.
- That has also been very beneficial for me and also happens to be what my blood type is best suited for is a plant based diet.
- So how important is it that we know our blood type as it relates to what we're getting ready to eat and and pay attention to that?
Examples
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The blood type is AB and Tom's was type A, so it wasn't Tom.
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Do you know your parents' blood types?
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This is the report that said what the blood type was.
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So we we list people by their blood type and by their size.
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Do you know your blood type?
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This man has your blood type.
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We're the same blood type.
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We'll need to test you both for blood types.
Fiction book (2002) -
So doctors need to match recipients with donors that share their blood type and have similar antigens.
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Do you know your blood type?
Synonyms
A set of blood types people inherit from their parents that shows which blood they can receive
How Specific
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a category of blood classified by antigens' is directly and transparently derived from combining 'blood' (the bodily fluid) with 'type' (a class or category). This compositional pattern is common across languages and follows a straightforward noun + noun classification pattern that a B1 learner who knows both constituents can readily infer.
Etymology
Blood type comes from early medical work when doctors saw that different people's blood reacted differently when mixed — some samples clumped. They called these different 'types' or 'groups', so blood type now means the medical group of a person's blood and shows who they can safely receive blood from.