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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A person who has group O blood and is therefore able to serve as a donor to a person of any other blood group in the ABO system.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Med.) a person belonging to the O blood group (of the ABO classification), who can safely donate blood to anyone.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A person with
blood type o , which lacksantigens , and is therefore compatible with all other blood types, allowing such person todonate blood to any other person.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a person whose type O Rh-negative blood may be safely transfused into persons with other blood types
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