Crossmatch


[kraws-mach, kros-] /ˈkrɔsˌmætʃ, ˈkrɒs-/

verb (used with object)
1.
to match (related items from two or more lists or groups).
2.
Medicine/Medical. to subject (blood) to 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.
verb
1.
(immunol) to test the compatibility of (a donor’s and recipient’s blood) by checking that the red cells of each do not agglutinate in the other’s serum

cross matching or crossmatching
n.

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