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13. Type AB blood has often been called the universal recipient meaning a person with

this blood type could receive a transfusion of any other blood type. Explain why this
phrase is misleading.

User Anarno
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There are still positive and negative ab blood types so you still have to match the positives and negatives
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Giving the person type a or type B or type O blood would introduce antibodies into the blood that the body wouldn't be able to control
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