RH INCOMPATIBILITY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Rh incompatibility mean? 

• RH INCOMPATIBILITY (noun)
  The noun RH INCOMPATIBILITY has 1 sense:

1. incompatibility of Rh blood types; a transfusion of Rh-positive blood given to a Rh-negative person (or vice versa) can result in hemolysis and anemia

  Familiarity information: RH INCOMPATIBILITY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• RH INCOMPATIBILITY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Incompatibility of Rh blood types; a transfusion of Rh-positive blood given to a Rh-negative person (or vice versa) can result in hemolysis and anemia

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Hypernyms ("Rh incompatibility" is a kind of...):

incompatibility ((immunology) the degree to which the body's immune system will try to reject foreign material (as transfused blood or transplanted tissue))

 Context examples 

Other conditions that can make pregnancy risky can happen while you are pregnant - for example, gestational diabetes and Rh incompatibility.

(Health Problems in Pregnancy, NIH)

Encephalopathy in infants due to high levels of unconjugated bilirubin that are a result of Rh incompatibility between the mother and the fetus.

(Kernicterus due to Isoimmunization, NCI Thesaurus)

It is also associated with vitamin A, C, or D deficiency, infectious disease, prematurity, birth injury, Rh incompatibility, trauma, or local infection.

(Enamel Hypoplasia, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)