universal recipient

American  

noun

plural

universal recipients

1. a person whose blood type is group AB and who can therefore receive blood of any type.

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universal recipient Scientific  

1. A person who has group AB blood and is therefore able to receive blood from a person with any other blood type. Group AB blood contains red blood cells that have both antigens A and B and thus does not have reactive antibodies in its plasma to these antigens, which are found in some other blood types.

2. See also blood type

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Example Sentences

Once the universal donor, it’s now the universal recipient.

From New York Times

It is the universal recipient, reservoir of germs of life, and mould of transformations.

From Project Gutenberg