Rh-positive
Example Sentences
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A reaction there indicates you are Rh-positive; if nothing happens, you’re Rh-negative.
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 9, 2020
If the mother has a second Rh-positive child, IgG antibodies against Rh-positive blood mounted during this secondary response cross the placenta and attack the fetal blood, causing anemia.
From Textbooks • Jun. 19, 2013
However, if she has a second Rh-positive fetus, her body may launch an immune attack that causes hemolytic disease of the newborn.
From Textbooks • Apr. 25, 2013
And through this he injected red cells, Rh-negative like the mother's, to replace the baby's own Rh-positive cells, which were being destroyed.
From Time Magazine Archive
Bob's blood was Rh-positive, Joan's negative?meaning that she lacked the Rh factor* present in most blood.
From Time Magazine Archive
