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cross matching

noun

, Medicine/Medical.
  1. the testing for compatibility of a donor's and a recipient's blood prior to transfusion, in which serum of each is mixed with red blood cells of the other and observed for hemagglutination.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of cross matching1

First recorded in 1935–40

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