blood bank
Americannoun
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a place where blood or blood plasma is collected, processed, stored, and distributed.
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such a supply of blood or blood plasma.
noun
Etymology
Origin of blood bank
First recorded in 1935–40
Example Sentences
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And Alexandre’s movie theater, with its bloody spectacles, gets replaced by something very different: a blood bank, a monument to recovery.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 27, 2025
Some version of a civilian walking blood bank may soon become a reality.
From Slate ● Oct. 21, 2025
For Pawlowski, clinical director of the blood bank and pet hospital, the corgi’s successful transfusion was the culmination of years of work that included guiding the blood bank law through the Legislature.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 17, 2024
They show up to outpatient clinics already displaying signs of trouble, Horvath said, and immediately have to be sent to the hospital where there’s an operating room and a blood bank.
From Salon ● Sep. 18, 2024
She got so much blood that one doctor wrote a note in her record stopping all transfusions “until her deficit with the blood bank was made up.”
From "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks" by Rebecca Skloot
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