blood bank

noun

1. a place where blood or blood plasma is collected, processed, stored, and distributed.

2. such a supply of blood or blood plasma.

blood bank

noun

1. a place where whole blood, blood plasma, or other blood products are stored until required in transfusion

Word History and Origins

Origin of blood bank¹

First recorded in 1935–40

Example Sentences

“Bring Her Back” contains enough gore to swamp a blood bank.

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Mudather died the next morning because the hospital's blood bank had been decimated by a long power outage and he could not get the transfusion he needed.

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This shaggy, silly movie works because you want to be there wherever the leads fall splat on their faces: a blood bank, a brawl, an ambulance.

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They vowed to replace them with community blood banks and ordered that the state’s inspection reports — long sealed — be open to public scrutiny.

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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.

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