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Rh-positive

[ahr-eych poz-i-tiv] / ˈɑrˈeɪtʃ ˈpɒz ɪ tɪv /


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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

This disease occurs when mothers negative for Rh antigen have multiple Rh-positive children.

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

In these 200,000 or more marriages a year, the wife lacks the Rh factor present in most blood and is Rh-negative; the husband has the factor and is Rh-positive.

From Time Magazine Archive

Fluid withdrawn through the needle showed the extent to which the baby's Rh-positive cells were being destroyed by antibody from the Rh-negative mother.

From Time Magazine Archive




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