Someone with type A blood would not be able to get a transfusion of type B blood, because the recipient's type B antibodies would react with the antigens in the type B blood and cause agglutination.
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Agglutination
//əˌɡluːtɪˈneɪ.ʃən//
Synonyms for "agglutination" (94 found)
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3 entriesTranslations
42 translations across 19 languages.
Bulgarian
1 entries- слепване noun (act of uniting by glue or other tenacious substance)
Catalan
1 entries- aglutinació noun (combination in which root words are united with little or no change of form or loss of meaning)
Chinese Mandarin
4 entries- 粘合 noun (act of uniting by glue or other tenacious substance)
- 粘着 noun (combination in which root words are united with little or no change of form or loss of meaning)
- 粘著 noun (combination in which root words are united with little or no change of form or loss of meaning)
- 黏合 noun (act of uniting by glue or other tenacious substance)
Eastern Mari
2 entries- агглютинаций noun (combination in which root words are united with little or no change of form or loss of meaning)
- агглютинаций noun (clumping together of red blood cells or bacteria)
Finnish
4 entries- agglutinaatio noun (combination in which root words are united with little or no change of form or loss of meaning)
- agglutinaatio noun (clumping together of red blood cells or bacteria)
- liimaus noun (act of uniting by glue or other tenacious substance)
- liimautuminen noun (act of uniting by glue or other tenacious substance)
French
2 entries- agglutination noun (act of uniting by glue or other tenacious substance)
- agglutination noun (combination in which root words are united with little or no change of form or loss of meaning)
German
1 entries- Agglutination noun (act of uniting by glue or other tenacious substance)
Hungarian
3 entries- agglutináció noun (combination in which root words are united with little or no change of form or loss of meaning)
- agglutinálás noun (combination in which root words are united with little or no change of form or loss of meaning)
- ragasztás noun (act of uniting by glue or other tenacious substance)
Indonesian
1 entries- aglutinasi noun (clumping together of red blood cells or bacteria)
Japanese
1 entries- 膠着 noun (combination in which root words are united with little or no change of form or loss of meaning)
Kazakh
2 entries- агглютинация noun (clumping together of red blood cells or bacteria)
- жалғамалылық noun (combination in which root words are united with little or no change of form or loss of meaning)
Korean
1 entries- 교착 noun (combination in which root words are united with little or no change of form or loss of meaning)
Malay
1 entries- pengaglutinan noun (clumping together of red blood cells or bacteria)
Polish
2 entries- aglutynacja noun (combination in which root words are united with little or no change of form or loss of meaning)
- aglutynacja noun (clumping together of red blood cells or bacteria)
Portuguese
3 entries- aglutinação noun (act of uniting by glue or other tenacious substance)
- aglutinação noun (combination in which root words are united with little or no change of form or loss of meaning)
- aglutinação noun (clumping together of red blood cells or bacteria)
Romanian
3 entries- aglutinare noun (act of uniting by glue or other tenacious substance)
- aglutinare noun (combination in which root words are united with little or no change of form or loss of meaning)
- aglutinare noun (clumping together of red blood cells or bacteria)
Russian
4 entries- агглютина́ция noun (act of uniting by glue or other tenacious substance)
- агглютина́ция noun (combination in which root words are united with little or no change of form or loss of meaning)
- агглютина́ция noun (clumping together of red blood cells or bacteria)
- скле́ивание noun (act of uniting by glue or other tenacious substance)
Serbo-Croatian
3 entries- aglutinacija noun (act of uniting by glue or other tenacious substance)
- aglutinacija noun (combination in which root words are united with little or no change of form or loss of meaning)
- aglutinacija noun (clumping together of red blood cells or bacteria)
Spanish
3 entries- aglutinación noun (act of uniting by glue or other tenacious substance)
- aglutinación noun (combination in which root words are united with little or no change of form or loss of meaning)
- aglutinación noun (clumping together of red blood cells or bacteria)
Sample sentences
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Basque is known for its agglutination.
Source: tatoeba (11780348)
It may resemble the factor 5 in Salmonella, a heat-labile determinant on the endotoxin molecule which, because of its superficial location, blocks the agglutination reaction of the deeper heat-stable O antigens in the same way as do the Vi and K antigens.
Source: wiktionary
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