What does the I in blood typing stand for? You know like type a blood being Ia blood?
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I've not seen this notation before but I'd guess it stood for 'Immunoglobulin'
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No..."A" and "B" are codominant alelles (gene markers) for blood type, which means they are equally dominant over "O". Type A blood happens when a person either has one A  marker and no marker on the other side (type O), or both A; type AB is when a person inherits one A marker and one B. Type O really means there are "NO" surface markers (antigens) on the red blood cells, which requires that the person inherit type O genes from BOTH parents.  So the genetics would look like this:\n\nMom can be either AA or AO (both express type A)\nDad is AB (can't be anything else)\n\nThus:  Baby can be AA or AB if Mom is AA; baby can be AA, AB, AO, or BO if Mom is AO. But...baby cannot be Type O because OO is not a possible combination when Dad is AB.\n\nSince the blood type doesn't match, positive or negative Rh doesn't matter in determining the paternity.
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My typing teacher told us that everyone has some combination of letters they will always mess up, for some reason.  For myself, it's always the T and the H ... so my "the" looks like "hte".  It's apparently normal.
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There are 4 blood types = A,B,AB and O\nIn these blood types the RH is either positive or negative.\nSo there are 8 different blood types.\nAll humans have the same basic blood types, so transfusions are available after they find the blood type of the person needing it. The exception being O-(neg) blood is universal donor, meaning any one can get it, AB- is universal recpient, meaning they can get any blood type.\nAsians are NOT all rh-.
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Yes it reads inward/outward.  Why so curious??
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In the ABO blood type system, each person has 2 blood type alleles, one from each parent. The alleles can be A, B, or O. Which 2 alleles you have determines which blood type you will be: AA or AO is blood type A; BB or BO is blood type B; OO is blood type O; AB is blood type AB.\n\nThe +/- system is called the Rhesus factor and works in a similar way. There are 2 alleles: Rh+ (+ for short) or Rh- (- for short). A person with 2 copies of Rh+ (++) or only 1 copy (+-) will be +. A person with no Rh+ (--) will be -. \n\nTo answer your final question, a person who is O+ must have the alleles OO++ or OO+-. A person who is A+ can be AA++, AO++, AA+-, or AO+-. They can certainly share the same mother and father. One example is that the mother can be AO++ and the father is AO+-.
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There are some rare factors in human blood, but the major groups are Type A (genes AA or AO), Type B (genes BB or BO), Type O (genes OO), and Type AB (genes AB). The Rh factor is important, also - either + or -.
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Rh + is dominant, - is recessive; the A blood type can be either homozygous or heterozygous (its multiple allelles), so babies could be O+ or O-, A+ or A-.
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No.  They are not equal.\n\nThe "u" in "uIU/mL" represents the Greek letter named "mu".  But, because computer keyboards don't have a "mu" key, most people type a "u" because it looks almost like the letter "mu".\n\nThe "mu" used here is a metric system prefix, which means 1/1000000.  The "m" in "mL" is another metric system prefix, which means 1/1000.  The "mu" stands for "micro".  The "m" stands for "milli".\n\n1000000 uIU/mL is equal to 1 IU/mL.\n\nNote:  I am NOT a source of medical advice.  If you need medical advice, then go talk to a doctor.
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Your blood type depends on the blood type of your parents. So if their bloodtype is known you can make a good guess of your bloodtype. \nBut to be ascertain you'll have to get pricked .. Btw .. it doesnt hurt or something .. they just take a droplet of your blood for this test ..
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http://www.bloodbook.com/type-facts.html
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A negative blood type means you lack the RH factor-if your partner is a positive blood type, you will have to have Rhogam injections, early in pregnancy, and again after the baby is born-if the baby has a positive blood type. Negative blood types who are carrying positive blood type babies, fight the "positive" like it is a enemy. That is why you have to have the injections, to "immunize" and keep your negative from fighting the positive, does that make it any clearer?
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they are abbreviations.......cant think of anything else
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The answer is I.\nThey are the English initials of the names of the letters of the Greek alphabet. The next letter in the sequence is Iota.\n(alpha, Beta, Gamma, Delta, etc... Iota)
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I work in the medical field, and one thing I can tell you for sure, is that many abbreviations have the same letters, but mean different things to different fields of medicine. I am telling you this because ABI means Ankle Brachial Index, but I work in a vascular field, and it may mean something else in another field.
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Ditto with spyderman, CBC, Chem7, PT/INR, PTT, possible bleeding time, and if the doctor is smart, a current blood type on file.
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i.e. stands for the Latin phrase "id est", meaning "that is".  I'm responding to your question, i.e., I'm answering it.