See Also: Blood group, ABO(health)
Blood group(health)
Blood group(medicine)
CDE blood group(medicine)
ABO blood group(health)
abo blood group(medicine)
blood group(dictionary)
K blood group(medicine)
rh-hr blood-group system(medicine)
p blood-group system(medicine)

blood group substance (medicine) and nerve(2) (iou)


blood group substance (medicine)


blood group substance
Blood group-specific substances A and B, solution of complexes of polysaccharides and amino acids that reduces the titre of anti-A and anti-B isoagglutinins in serum from group O persons; used to render group O blood reasonably safe for transfusion into persons of group A, B, or AB, but does not affect any incompatibility that results from various Other factors, such as Rh.


nerve(2) (iou)



nerve verb trans. E16.
[from the noun.]
Ornament with threads or narrow bands of some material. Scot. rare. E-M16.
Give strength or vigour to (the arm, the body, etc.). M18.
W. C. Bryant He nerved their limbs With vigor ever new.
Imbue with courage, embolden; refl. brace (oneself) to face adversity etc. L18.
E. M. Forster With infinite effort we nerve ourselves for a crisis that never comes.