Rh factor
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The combination of A and B antigens and the Rh factor produces the eight major blood types: A-positive, A-negative, B-positive, B-negative, AB-positive, AB-negative, O-positive and O-negative.
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 9, 2020
In 1937, Landsteiner and Alexander Wiener identified another essential feature of blood, the Rh factor, which explained blood incompatibilities between certain mothers and fetuses—a leading cause of stillbirths at the time.
From The New Yorker • Jan. 7, 2019
Looking at just the Rh factor, the team found that diabetes risk was the same whether or a not a woman was Rh positive or Rh negative.
From US News • Dec. 18, 2014
This disease is treated with antibodies specific for Rh factor.
From Textbooks • Jun. 19, 2013
Bob's blood was Rh-positive, Joan's negative?meaning that she lacked the Rh factor* present in most blood.
From Time Magazine Archive
