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Medical Definition of Kell
: of, relating to, or being a group of allelic red-blood-cell antigens of which some are important causes of transfusion reactions and some forms of erythroblastosis fetalis
Kell blood group system Kell blood typing
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“Kell.” Merriam-Webster.com Medical Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/medical/Kell. Accessed 9 Aug. 2022.
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