Definition of "blood type" [blood type]

• See blood group. (noun)

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• "“What they will do is suck a couple of vials of my precious bodily fluids out of here, and they will check my blood type and some obscure red blood antigens and they’ll do what they call HLA typing, which detects proteins that are present in my lymphocytes, whatever the hell those are.”"
• ""Dr. Beck, you're blood type B positive, isn't that right?""
• "Danny let go of Leo Theodore Bordoni’s neck, the fat man’s reward for a parlay — reaction to the gore, blood type and physical description — that eliminated him as a killing suspect."