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type (tīp) the general or prevailing character of any particular case of disease, person, substance, etc.

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blood type  see blood group.

constitutional type  a constellation of traits related to body build.

mating type  in ciliate protozoa, certain bacteria, and certain fungi, the equivalent of a sex.

phage type  an intraspecies type of bacterium demonstrated by phage typing.

wild type  in genetics, the standard phenotype for any experimental organism; also a gene that determines a standard phenotypic trait.

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type (tp)

n.

1. A number of people or things having in common traits or characteristics that distinguish them as a group or class.

2. The general character or structure held in common by a number of people or things considered as a group or class.

3. A person or thing having the features of a group or class.

4. An example or a model having the ideal features of a group or class.

5. A taxonomic group, especially a genus or species, chosen as the representative example in characterizing the larger taxonomic group to which it belongs.

6. The specimen on which the original description and naming of a taxon is based.

v.

To determine the antigenic characteristics of a blood or tissue sample.

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type

1. the general or prevailing character of any particular case of disease, microorganism, person, substance, etc.

2. to determine or assign a character or category.

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blood t's

see blood group.

type I to type IV hypersensitivity

see hypersensitivity.

type 1 muscle fiber

slow twitch muscle fiber.

type 2 muscle fiber

fast twitch muscle fiber.

wild type

the normal or naturally occurring phenotype of an organism.

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type

A simple way of classifying practically anything is to divide it into 2 or more 'types'; in general, typing keeps the number of subgroups to a minimum, while satisfying those with obsessive-compulsive neuroses who are driven to classify diseases, objects, people and mechanisms

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Patient discussion about Gothic type.

Q. which is the most fatal cancer type?

A. pancreatic cancer is more fatal than the lung cancer, but the former is much rarer than the letter. This makes the lung cancer the number one cancer responsible for fatalities in the US.

Q. Types of Bipolar I like to know that how many types of bipolar is there and what are its symptoms? Can any one please explain?

A. The DSM-IV (bible of psychological disorders) recognizes two disorders within the category of Bipolar disorders. Bipolar I Disorder is the characteristic cycling of depressive lows and manic highs (the extent and length of these extremes differ from person to person). Bipolar II disorder is cycling between depression and less intense hypomanias. So in a way, Bipolar II is less fun than Bipolar I. Manias and Hypomanias are not just being really happy. They are merely a period of intense energy and activity. The patient often has little control over what they say or do during this period.
There is something in Bipolar disorder called a "Mixed Episode". They are not very common but this is a very distressing period in which a person experiences symptoms from both a mania and a depression at the same time. Dark, disturbing thoughts and intense anxiety and lowered inhibitions--even panic attacks. In the words of my professor: "Mixed episodes suck".

Q. HIV - does it infect specific Blood Types? A friend of mine joined the army and they took him to an experiment and infected him with HIV. But he was not infected- he said because he has a certain blood type. Is this true?

A. I find it hard to believe the army infected any one with HIV. But that's a different story. Blood types differ from one another by their red blood cells proteins. HIV infects white blood cells .there is no connection between blood type and a cure for HIV. If there was- you’ve heard about it by now…