Medical Dictionary

Kell

adjective \ ˈkel \

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

Biographical Note for kell

Kell, medical patient. Kell was a female patient in whose blood antibodies to an antigen of the Kell blood group were first found. The discovery of the group was first reported in 1946.