Blood type

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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blood type

n.

1. The specific reaction pattern of red blood cells of an individual to the antisera of one blood group as, for example, of the ABO blood group, which consists of four major blood types, O, A, B, and AB.

2. Blood group.

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Blood type

Blood categories based on the presence or absence of certain antigens on the red blood cells.

Mentioned in: Blood Typing and Crossmatching

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blood type

1. blood group.

2. the phenotype of an individual with respect to a blood group system.

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Patient discussion about Blood type.

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…

Q. Is it true that people with different blood type should have different diets?

A. There were plenty of suggestions on changing your diet according to your blood type, however none of them were proved in a proper double-blinded randomized control trial in scientific medicine and therefore it is still yet another theory.

Q. Do all cancer types involve tumors? If so than having leukemia means you have tumors in your blood?

A. cancer is human cells that are mutated and lost control on their proliferating state. they just multiply and multiply without any regulation. blood cells are not attached so they don't form a "tumor" (in Latin means- a bump)if becoming cancerous.