rhesusn.
/ˈriːsəs/, U.S. /ˈrisəs/ 1. More fully rhesus macaque, rhesus monkey. A brown macaque with red skin on the face and rump, Macaca mulatta, common and widespread in Asia.The rhesus macaque has been widely used as a laboratory animal in biomedical research.
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the world > animals > mammals > order Primates > suborder Anthropoidea (higher primates) > [noun] > group Catarrhinae (Old World monkey) > family Cercopithecidae > genus Macaca (macaque) > Macaca mulatta (rhesus macaque)
rhesus monkey1802
bandar1885
1802 Crit. Rev. 35 560 He [sc. Latreille] has..introduced the black ape spoken of by Vaillant, as well as the rhesus of Audibert.
1829 Jrnl. Facts Feb. 55 The Rhesus monkeys are originally from India; it is by them that a great part of the forests of the banks of the Ganges are inhabited.
1841 Penny Cycl. XIX. 448/2 Rhesus Monkey, a species of Simiadæ.
1881 Mind 6 468 Among higher monkeys we find brilliant sexual hues in the rhesus, mandrill, and some other species.
1906 E. Ingersoll Life Animals: Mammals 30 The widespread little yellowish Bengal or rhesus monkey..abounds in northern India.
1941 Science 12 Dec. 568/1 Several extensive studies..testify to the uniformly negative results of feeding virus to rhesus.
1976 Amer. Jrnl. Vet. Res. 37 969/1 Rhesus macaques have been selected most for studying radiation sickness.
2007 G. Radick Simian Tongue i. iii. 99 The foreign monkeys were kept separate to ensure that no communication passed between them and the local rhesuses.
2. Medicine. A major human blood group system originally identified by means of rabbit antisera to rhesus monkey blood, consisting of three principal antigens (one major, D, which is the most immunogenic, and two minor, C and E). Symbol Rh (see Rh n.2). Chiefly attributive.The rhesus blood group system is best known for its role in haemolytic disease in the fetus and newborn, which may occur in a rhesus-positive fetus carried by a rhesus-negative mother who has developed antibody to the rhesus factor following a previous pregnancy or blood transfusion.
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rhesus1941
rhesus negative1942
rhesus positive1942
1941 Amer. Jrnl. Obstetr. & Gynecol. 42 925 In the great majority of the cases the blood factor involved has been shown to be either identical with or related to the Rh (Rhesus) agglutinogen first described by Landsteiner and Wiener with the aid of rabbit sera prepared by injection of Rhesus blood.
1947 G. F. Roberts Rhesus Factor v. 32 The question of rhesus incompatibility must..be considered in terms of C, D and E.
1958 Listener 17 July 87/1 The Rhesus system has been of service..in demonstrating the genetic complexity of the regions of the germ-plasm responsible for blood-group polymorphisms.
1971 Genetica 41 370 Rhesus is a genetic system controlling a series of very complex antigens.
1985 M. F. Myles Textbk. Midwives (ed. 10) xxxi. 568 Rhesus haemolytic disease of the newborn is an important immunological disorder.
2000 G. Chamberlain & P. Bowen-Simpkins Pract. Obstetr. & Gynaecol. (ed. 3) vii. 60/1 Rhesus incompatibility used to be a major problem, but with its startling reduction, following Anti-D prophylaxis other ABO blood group incompatibilities are becoming relatively more important.
Compounds
C1. General attributive in sense 1.
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1914 Jrnl. Animal Behav. 4 302 The mature rhesus male..also inspects the female's genitalia after a perfunctory attempt at copulation.
1931 Science 3 July 14/1 Building has begun on the new monkey house at the Johns Hopkins Medical School for the housing of the rhesus colony.
1941 Amer. Jrnl. Obstetr. & Gynecol. 42 925 The Rh (Rhesus) agglutinogen [was] first described by Landsteiner and Wiener with the aid of rabbit sera prepared by injection of Rhesus blood.
1990 Lancet 11 Aug. 332/1 Three animal rotaviruses have been tested in several clinical trials: two serotype 6 bovine strains.., and the rhesus rotavirus vaccine.
C2.
rhesus antigen n. Medicine any of the red blood cell antigens constituting the rhesus blood group system; esp. the major (D) antigen of this system.
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antigen1908
isoantigen1936
rhesus antigen1946
immunogen1959
alloantigen1964
1946 Lancet 2 Nov. 635/2 Much has been written since 1944 about the rhesus antigens.
1994 Gynecol. & Obstetr. Investig. 38 82 (title) Obstetric implications of rhesus antigen distribution in Mozambican and Swedish women.
2002 Focus May 77/3 The first time someone without the Rhesus antigen is transfused with blood from someone with it, there is no reaction other than the creation of an antibody.
rhesus baby n. (a) an infant rhesus monkey; (b) a human infant with haemolytic disease of the newborn caused by maternal antibody to the rhesus factor.
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rhesus baby1952
the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders associated with age > [noun] > neonatal > person
rhesus baby1952
1928 Year Bk. No. 27 (Carnegie Inst. Washington) 14 A 12½-pound female specimen..gave birth to a normally developed rhesus baby.
1952 Annales Medicinae Internae Fenniae 41 2 The one last mentioned..was, moreover, a Rhesus-baby to whom an exchange transfusion had been made through the cord immediately after birth.
1975 K. Lorenz in R. I. Evans Konrad Lorenz ii. 31 Harlow concludes that the rhesus babies cling more strongly to the terry-cloth mother than to their natural mother.
2002 J. G. McGeown Physiol. (ed. 2) ii. 33/1 These problems of the ‘Rhesus baby’ have largely been eradicated by injecting all D-negative mothers with anti-D antibodies shortly after the birth of each baby.
rhesus factor n. Medicine a rhesus antigen, spec. the major (D) antigen.
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B1921
A1923
O1926
Rh1940
rhesus factor1941
1941 Amer. Jrnl. Orthodontics & Oral Surg. 27 638 These cells contained the rhesus (Rh) factor.
1958 Listener 17 July 87/1 A fourth system [of blood-groups], which has been named the Rhesus factor.
2004 Healthy Sept.–Oct. 46/3 Another important molecule on the surface of..red cells is the ‘rhesus factor’.
rhesus negative adj. Medicine lacking the major (D) rhesus antigen.
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rhesus1941
rhesus negative1942
rhesus positive1942
1942 Lancet 16 May 583/1 The importance of the rhesus factor has been proved by the reports that rhesus-positive transfusions have caused reactions whereas a subsequent rhesus-negative transfusion was uneventful.
1961 P. Mason Common Sense about Race i. iii. 52 In Britain five persons out of six are classed as Rhesus positive in the Rhesus blood-group system, while one in six is Rhesus negative.
2001 N. Jones Rough Guide Trav. Health i. 115 If your blood group is rhesus negative, you will require an injection of an immunoglobulin (‘anti-D’ or ‘Rho-GAM’, eg) to prevent the formation of antibodies against your baby's blood group.
rhesus positive adj. Medicine having the major (D) rhesus antigen.
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the world > life > the body > vascular system > blood > [adjective] > blood group
rhesus1941
rhesus negative1942
rhesus positive1942
1942 Lancet 16 May 583/1 The importance of the rhesus factor has been proved by the reports that rhesus-positive transfusions have caused reactions whereas a subsequent rhesus-negative transfusion was uneventful.
1961 Times 5 May 20/6 A rhesus-positive baby whose father, a Jehovah Witness, refused to consent to a blood transfusion.
2004 Healthy Sept.–Oct. 46/3 About two-thirds of us carry this [rhesus factor] and are ‘rhesus positive’; the remainder are ‘rhesus negative’.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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