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  2. Blood Crossmatching: The First Step in Blood Transfusions - WebMD

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    Several tests are required to complete this process. The first test is blood typing, which tells you your blood type. This test also shows whether your Rh blood type is positive or negative. There ...

  3. Blood Typing and Crossmatching - Healthline

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    Your doctor uses blood typing and crossmatching to learn if donor blood or organs are compatible with your blood. Incompatible donor blood or organs can cause harmful interactions. Your immune ...

  4. Blood Typing: Purpose, Procedure, and Risks - Healthline

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    Blood typing is done prior to a blood transfusion or when classifying a person’s blood for donation. Blood typing is a fast and easy way to ensure that you receive the right kind of blood during ...

  5. Blood Types & ABO Blood Group Test: What Blood Type Are You?

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    The four major blood groups are based on whether or not you have two specific antigens -- A and B. Doctors call this the ABO Blood Group System. Group A has the A antigen and B antibody. Group B ...

  6. Blood Type and Health - WebMD

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    There’s good news for O blood types. Research shows your risk of coronary heart disease tends to be lower. Experts aren’t sure why. Some think it might be because other types are more likely ...

  7. Words per minute - Wikipedia

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    Words per minute is a common metric for assessing reading speed and is often used in the context of remedial skills evaluation, as well as in the context of speed reading, where it is a controversial measure of reading performance. A word in this context is the same as in the context of speech. Research done in 2012 [9] measured the speed at ...

  8. How to Find Out Your Blood Type: Home Testing & More - Healthline

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    You can find out your blood type by asking your doctor for a test, donating blood, or taking an at-home blood test. Your blood type is comprised of two blood groups: ABO and Rh. Blood types are ...

  9. ABO blood group system - Wikipedia

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    ABO blood group antigens present on red blood cells and IgM antibodies present in the serum. The ABO blood group system is used to denote the presence of one, both, or neither of the A and B antigens on erythrocytes (red blood cells). [1] For human blood transfusions, it is the most important of the 44 different blood type (or group ...