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  • adjective medicine Shown to be compatible with that of a recipient

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Examples

  • The Blood Bank Medical Directors are available 24/7 on pager to assist with any urgent medical questions and interpretation including product requests for HLA matched/crossmatched platelets, granulocytes, transfusion reactions and complex blood bank testing results.

    Blood Bank and Transfusion Medicine 2010

  • Having been crossmatched for blood, the woman deteriorated rapidly, and required emergency intervention to save her life.

    Michele Swenson: Contempt for Women Threatens Their Doctors 2009

  • But one thing he said really stayed with me: all the hospital personnel have their blood typed and crossmatched.

    Blood Makes Noise 2008

  • But one thing he said really stayed with me: all the hospital personnel have their blood typed and crossmatched.

    Archive 2008-03-01 2008

  • Rapid transfusion of as many units of crossmatched blood (which has been HIV tested) has necessary to maintain a stable blood pressure.

    Chapter 6 1993

  • I have personally run scores, if not hundreds, of units of blood and plasma that were furiously crossmatched to the OB floor because patients who had been discharged a couple of weeks before come back in an ambulance with a ruptured incision and a frightfully low blood count.

    There's a lot of money in institutionalized misogyny 2010

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