blood group

Questions about blood group

What does blood group mean?

blood group means "human blood cells (usually just the red blood cells) that have the same antigens".

What is another word for blood group?

Close synonyms include blood type. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is blood group a common word?

blood group is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.