rh-positive blood type

1. 1.

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

   SynonymsRh positive

   Broaderblood group

Questions about rh-positive blood type

What does rh-positive blood type mean?

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

What is another word for rh-positive blood type?

Close synonyms include Rh positive. 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 blood type a common word?

rh-positive 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.