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Rh incompatibility

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Rh incompatibility,
n a condition in which two groups of blood cells are antigentically different because of the presence of Rh factor in one group and the absence of the Rh factor in the other. See also Rh factor.
Rh incompatibility  Transfusion medicine An incompatibility in Rh types between a donor and recipient, or between an fetus–who is Rh positive, and the mother–who is negative and produces antibodies against the fetus' RBCs, which pass to the placenta, and cause HDN. See Hemolytic disease of the newborn.


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