Word: rh
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...mysterious Rh factor-in human blood had disturbed the serenity of many a mother-to-be. For if a wife's blood were Rh negative and a husband's Rh positive, their child might be stillborn, or born with erythroblastosis fetalis, characterized by anemia and jaundice...
What happens is that the baby's red blood cells which contain the Rh factor become mixed in some unknown way with the Rh negative blood of the mother. Result: to combat the invading cells, her tissues produce destructive antibodies. These then diffuse back into the unborn child's blood stream, attacking the blood cells, causing the disease...
...soccer lineup for the Tufts game: g Arias, rf Reckis, lf Ransom, ch McKinney, rh Ruibal, lf Seamons, ol Chen, il Chun, cf Miller, ir Azcarraga, or Dawson...
...wise child that knows his own father, but henceforth the Rh* factor will make it easier to establish paternity. Brooklyn's famed Blood-Expert Alexander Wiener pointed out last week that there are eight Rh blood types (instead of two, as hitherto believed). The factors are inherited and can be used to prove whether a given man could possibly be a given child's father. The Rh factors raise possible blood-type combinations to 288, raise an innocent man's chances of proving non-paternity from one in three...
year (TIME, Nov. 27, 1944). The name Rh...