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Once the wounded are on the operating table, antibiotics, antiseptics, blood typing, and the ability to transfuse patients all make surgeries far more likely to be successful today.
—Tanisha M. Fazal, Foreign Affairs, 15 Oct. 2019
The traditional blood typing process focuses on A, B and Rh markers but misses the others.
—Paul Sisson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 May 2023
In what are known as stranger rapes, detectives decades ago had a few forensic tools, such as fingerprints and blood typing, to solve the cases, but the process was laborious and involved finding suspects and then manually comparing the prints and blood.
—Isabel Seliger, ProPublica, 24 May 2021
Physicians knew that transfusions had to come from a patient’s relative or the patient’s own blood, but precise blood typing did not yet exist, Mahoney said.
—Julie Washington, cleveland, 24 Feb. 2021
Activities will include fingerprinting, blood typing and DNA extraction.
—Staff Report, NOLA.com, 20 Jan. 2021
Safe blood transfusions depend on careful blood typing and cross-matching.
—Julie Washington, cleveland, 30 June 2020
Announcements about these studies have raised questions about the science behind blood typing.
—Julie Washington, cleveland, 30 June 2020
For these and other, less scientific reasons, a lot of people seemed perfectly comfortable disregarding blood typing as evidence.
—Margaret Talbot, The New Yorker, 24 June 2019
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First Known Use
1919, in the meaning defined above
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“Blood typing.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/blood%20typing. Accessed 21 Nov. 2024.
Medical Definition
blood typing
noun
: the action or process of determining an individual's blood group
called also blood grouping
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