rh-negative

1. 1.

   of persons (or their blood) lacking the Rh factor present in their red blood cells

   Antonymsrh-positive

Questions about rh-negative

What does rh-negative mean?

rh-negative means "of persons (or their blood) lacking the Rh factor present in their red blood cells".

How many syllables are in rh-negative?

rh-negative has 3 syllables and divides as rh-ne-ga-tive under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is the opposite of rh-negative?

The recorded antonyms are rh-positive.

Is rh-negative a common word?

rh-negative 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.