BLOOD TYPING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does blood typing mean? 

• BLOOD TYPING (noun)
  The noun BLOOD TYPING has 1 sense:

1. determining a person's blood type by serological methods

  Familiarity information: BLOOD TYPING used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BLOOD TYPING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Determining a person's blood type by serological methods

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("blood typing" is a kind of...):

diagnosing; diagnosis (identifying the nature or cause of some phenomenon)

 Context examples 

We are not suggesting that we should be blood typing all individuals with diarrhoea, but individuals with blood group A appear to be at highest risk for severe infection and stand to benefit the most in terms of preventing the most severe form of illness, Fleckenstein tells.

(People with type A blood at most risk of severe diarrhoea, SciDev.Net)