What is the most common blood group?
Correct answer: O
WaldoLydeker
Wonder who and why selected the designations A B O? Why not say, U, for universal instead of O?
Laudy Miss Claudy
MindTreat, O- is the universal donor. Those of us who work in the ER really love this type od blood.
Player #10056078
WaldoLydeker, it was originally ABC groups but type C was renamed to type 0 (zero) because it contains no antigens
MindTreat
Player #2161211, that's o negative, not just o. Normal type o is common while type o negative is the rare and universal type
Laudy Miss Claudy
Sumica, With AB+ blood your son is considered a universal recipient. Technically he can receive any type of blood.
upsidedownpug
WaldoLydeker, O is actually zero, indicating that neither protein A nor. protein B is present. AB = both proteins present.
Player #3031857
I have o positive
DEBRA MINĎFUL2256
Player songbird28, I love reading the discussion about who has what blood and who is the best etc. all the stuff you just read,it's funny.
McGiff
Player #10056078, O from the German Ohne, meaning Zero.
Player #25874027
McGiff,
Ohne is German for without
Yusuf
This statement is INCORRECT. Type is the most universally transfusiable. Not the most common
Brad Stopher
my blood type is O negative
sapphire
WaldoLydeker, gotta tell them apart some how. lol guess that's just the name they came up with in the lab. the letter "O" meaning the absence of A and B antigens😊
caliro
Mosquitoes also love type O blood.
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WaldoLydeker, it's not O it's 0
Travel Lady
Mia, A is not the most common
Mia
The question is what is the most common blood type, while O is universal A is most common
ТАШУНКО САПА
MindTreat, also a great band.
alex
WaldoLydeker, maybe it's from omni which is latin for everything
Player #22205195
WaldoLydeker, universal donor is only O- which around 8% of the population has making it close to A- in rarity! And these days they now check for all sorts of antibodies ( that can have great variance ) and cause donor rejection.
Player #14900060CJMD
The answer is actually O+,since O- is the universal donor but it is not as common as is O+.
Player songbird28
MindTreat, for red cells
Player songbird28
Dragonlady, O Neg is the universal red cell donor. AB Neg is the universal plasma donor
Player songbird28
Sumica, not rare but least common
Player #3912108
Sumica, i have AO negative and so does my ex husband. we found out that we had the second factor O because one of our sons has O negative. For him to have O neg we both had to have the second factor O My oldest son is A negative and so is my daughter
Dratomic1974
how many times are we going to see this question
batman25/1
MindTreat, I have o negative - so did my mum and so does my daughter
MetallicJuniper15324
cest la vie!!!