13054 IUPAC Gold Book - cross-matching 10.1351/goldbook.13054 13054 current 1 1) Test for determining the compatibility between the blood of a donor and that of a recipient before transfusion; the clumping of erythrocytes indicates incompatibility. 2) Test for determining tissue compatibility between a transplant donor and the recipient before transplantation, in which the recipient’s serum is tested for antibodies that may react with the lymphocytes or other cells of the donor. 3) Process of performing one of these tests. erythrocytes https://goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/13127 lymphocytes https://goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/13399 transfusion https://goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/13753 transplantation https://goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/13754 PAC, 2012, 84, 1113. 'IUPAC glossary of terms used in immunotoxicology (IUPAC Recommendations 2012)' on page 1151 (https://doi.org/10.1351/PAC-REC-11-06-03) https://goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/13054/html https://goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/13054/json https://goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/13054/plain Citation: 'cross-matching' in IUPAC Compendium of Chemical Terminology, 5th ed. International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry; 2025. Online version 5.0.0, 2025. 10.1351/goldbook.13054 The IUPAC Gold Book is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike CC BY-SA 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) for individual terms. If you are interested in licensing the Gold Book for commercial use, please contact the IUPAC Executive Director at executivedirector@iupac.org . The International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) is continuously reviewing and, where needed, updating terms in the Compendium of Chemical Terminology (the IUPAC Gold Book). Users of these terms are encouraged to include the version of a term with its use and to check regularly for updates to term definitions that you are using. 2026-06-29T03:42:08+00:00