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Not What You Meant?  There are 92 definitions for A.  Also try: Blood or Recipient or B or RH.

Blood type

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Biography

Name: Alexander Wiener
Birth Date: 1907
Death Date: 1976
Nationality: American
Gender: Male
Occupations: physician, immunohematologist

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Biography of Alexander Wiener
1,389 words, approx. 5 pages
Alexander Wiener was a physician who, along with fellow scientist Karl Landsteiner, discovered the Rh factor in blood. He also discovered a number of other antigens (substances in the blood that cause the development of antibodies). The Rh factor is an...


Encyclopedia and Summary Information
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Blood Type Summary
1,399 words, approx. 5 pages
Blood has two main components: serum and cells. In 1900 Karl Landsteiner, a physician at the University of Vienna, Austria, noted that the sera of some individuals caused the red cells of others to agglutinate. This observation led to the discovery of...
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Blood Groups Summary
632 words, approx. 2 pages
The development of blood transfusion, a potentially life-saving technique, was hampered by a serious problem: many times the patient would suffer an often fatal "transfusion reaction," apparently to the donated blood itself. The cause of such reactions...
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Rh Factor Summary
595 words, approx. 2 pages
Rh factor describes blood type compatibility issues involving Rh blood groups. These play a critical role in transfusions and in obstetrics. Rh blood groups were first discovered in 1940 by Karl Landsteiner and Alexander Wiener in their experiments...
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Blood type Information
4,727 words, approx. 16 pages
A blood type (also called a blood group) is a classification of blood based on the presence or absence of inherited antigenic substances on the surface of red blood cells (RBCs). These antigens may be proteins, carbohydrates, glycoproteins or...
 


News and Journals
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Science Activities
Blood types.
01/01/1997: 1,260 words, approx. 4 pages
Background Sometimes when people are involved in an accident or have major surgery. they lose large amounts of blood and blood transfusions become necessary. Blood transfusions involve taking blood from one person (the donor) and giving it to another (the recipient). Prior...
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Women's Feature Service
India: Blood Type Diet
04/04/2005: 957 words, approx. 3 pages
New Delhi, (WFS) - Who would have thought that being an A or an O - positive or negative - could have a say in what one must eat or not eat, and the kind of exercise one should focus on? But the fact...
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AP Features
Use is expanding of wrong-blood-type heart transplants to save dying babies
2/12/2007: 879 words, approx. 3 pages
Connor Geddes was 13 days old when surgeons gave him a new heart that did not match his blood type _ deliberately.Connor, now 11 months old and thriving, is one of several dozen babies around the world to have received mismatched hearts, part of a...
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AP Features
HEALTHBEAT: Expanding use of wrong-blood-type heart transplants to save dying babies
2/12/2007: 893 words, approx. 3 pages
Connor Geddes was 13 days old when surgeons gave him a new heart that didn't match his blood type _ deliberately.Connor, now 11 months old and thriving, is one of several dozen babies around the world to have received mismatched hearts, part of a slowly...
 


Criticism and Essays
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Essay Grade: 81%
Classification of Human Blood
364 words, approx. 1 pages
Provides the details of a lab experiment detailing how blood is classified, or typed, according to the presence or absence of certain markers (called antigens) on the surface of red blood cells.


 

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