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English

  1. A blood type that has no antigens. It lacks the A, B and Rh factors on the blood cells. They are the universal donor for blood and can give blood to any blood type, but can only receive O- blood.

Japanese

o- (お-)

  1. Romanizaton of 御- (prefix indicating that a word is honorific)

Swedish

Etymology

From the Proto-Indo-European negative prefix *n̥- whence also eg. the Greek a- and English un-.

Prefix

o-

  1. Added to adjectives to mean the opposite.
  2. Added to nouns to mean lack or being without.


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