blood type

Questions about blood type

What does blood type mean?

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

What is another word for blood type?

Close synonyms include blood group. 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 type a common word?

blood type 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.