rh positive

1. 1.

   the blood group (approximately 85% of people) whose red cells have the Rh factor (Rh antigen)

   SynonymsRh-positive blood type

   Broaderblood group

Questions about rh positive

What does rh positive mean?

rh positive means "the blood group (approximately 85% of people) whose red cells have the Rh factor (Rh antigen)".

What is another word for rh positive?

Close synonyms include Rh-positive 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 rh positive a common word?

rh positive 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.