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Medical Definition of Reverse passive haemagglutination
1. If antibodies are bonded to the surface of red blood cells haemagglutination will occur if the appropriate bi or multivalent antigen is added in soluble or microparticulate form. Used as a test for for example Hepatitis B virus in the serum. This entry appears with permission from the Dictionary of Cell and Molecular Biology (11 Mar 2008)