rh-negative blood

1. 1.

   the blood group whose red cells lack the Rh factor (Rh antigen)

   SynonymsRh-negative blood typeRh negative

   Broaderblood group

Questions about rh-negative blood

What does rh-negative blood mean?

rh-negative blood means "the blood group whose red cells lack the Rh factor (Rh antigen)".

What is another word for rh-negative blood?

Close synonyms include Rh-negative blood type, Rh negative. 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 rh-negative blood a common word?

rh-negative blood 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.