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  • (blood group) A classification of blood based on the presence or absence of inherited antigenic substances on the surface of erythrocytes.
    NCI Thesaurus
    U.S. National Cancer Institute, 2021
  • (blood group) Any of the various types of human blood whose antigen characteristics determine compatibility in transfusion. While the ABO and Rhesus sytems are the most well known, there are in total about 300 different blood type antigens distributed across 34 different blood type systems.
    Human Phenotype Ontology (HPO)
    The Human Phenotype Ontology Project, 2021
  • (blood group) Classification systems (or schemes) of the different antigens located on erythrocytes; the antigens are the phenotypic expression of the genetic differences characteristic of specific blood groups.
    CRISP Thesaurus
    National Institutes of Health, 2006
  • (blood groups) The classification systems (or schemes) based on the different ANTIGENS located on ERYTHROCYTES.
    NLM Medical Subject Headings
    U.S. National Library of Medicine, 2021
  • Blood group, classification of blood based on inherited differences (polymorphisms) in antigens on the surfaces of the red blood cells (erythrocytes). Inherited differences of white blood cells (leukocytes), platelets (thrombocytes), and plasma proteins also constitute blood groups, but they are...
    Encyclopedia Britannica
    Encyclopedia Britannica, Inc., 2020
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