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" (101 found)
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Noun(5 words)
affixal morphologyaffixationagglutinating activityagglutinative morphologyantibody mediated aggregation
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Noun(2 words)
immune agglutinationmorpheme concatenation
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11 entriesbiological processchemical actionchemical changechemical processimmune reactionimmunologylinguistic processlinguisticsmorphologyorganic processword formation
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7 entriesbacterial agglutinationcell agglutinationcircumfixationhemagglutinationinfixationprefixationsuffixation
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6 entriesagglutination assayagglutination reactionantibody mediated agglutinationblood agglutinationcell agglutinationhemagglutination test
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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.
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