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

A patient with blood type AB+ is known as the universal recipient.

From Textbooks • Jun. 19, 2013

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

From New York Times • Oct. 12, 2011

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

From Toilers of the Sea by Hugo, Victor