Also known as: RH+, RH-
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Term that qualifies one of the blood systems, according to the name of the monkey that served Landsteiner and Wiener (1940) for the capital experiment that is the origin of the discovery of the Rh system. These researchers injected blood from the rhesus monkey into the rabbit's ear, thus causing the latter to produce antibodies, capable of agglutinating the blood of certain men.
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