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A place where human blood or blood plasma is typed and stored for use in transfusions.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: medicine, sciences
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
The range of such blood products stored.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: medicine, sciences
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
a place for storing whole blood or blood plasma
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- the Red Cross created a blood bank for emergencies
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: bank
No etymology was provided for this word.
Across languages
Translations
29 source translations are retained for this English entry.
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Catalan:
banc de sang
— place where human blood or blood plasma is typed and stored
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Chinese Mandarin:
血庫 /血库
(xuèkù)
— place where human blood or blood plasma is typed and stored
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Danish:
blodbank
— place where human blood or blood plasma is typed and stored
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Dutch:
bloedbank
— place where human blood or blood plasma is typed and stored
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Faroese:
blóðbanki
— place where human blood or blood plasma is typed and stored
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Finnish:
veripankki
— place where human blood or blood plasma is typed and stored
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French:
banque du sang
— place where human blood or blood plasma is typed and stored
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Georgian:
სისხლის ბანკი
(sisxlis banḳi)
— place where human blood or blood plasma is typed and stored
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German:
Blutbank
— place where human blood or blood plasma is typed and stored
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Hebrew:
בנק דם
— place where human blood or blood plasma is typed and stored
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Hungarian:
vérbank
— place where human blood or blood plasma is typed and stored
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Icelandic:
blóðbanki
— place where human blood or blood plasma is typed and stored
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Irish:
banc fola
— place where human blood or blood plasma is typed and stored
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Italian:
banca del sangue
— place where human blood or blood plasma is typed and stored
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Japanese:
血液銀行
(ketsuekiginkō)
— place where human blood or blood plasma is typed and stored
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Kazakh:
қан банкі
(qan bankı)
— place where human blood or blood plasma is typed and stored
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Khmer:
លោហិតាគារ
(loohetaakiə)
— place where human blood or blood plasma is typed and stored
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Korean:
혈액은행
(hyeoraegeunhaeng)
— place where human blood or blood plasma is typed and stored
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Kyrgyz:
кан сактагыч
(kan saktagıc)
— place where human blood or blood plasma is typed and stored
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Marathi:
रक्तपेढी
(raktapeḍhī)
— place where human blood or blood plasma is typed and stored
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Norwegian Bokmål:
blodbank
— place where human blood or blood plasma is typed and stored
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Norwegian Nynorsk:
blodbank
— place where human blood or blood plasma is typed and stored
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Polish:
bank krwi
— place where human blood or blood plasma is typed and stored
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Portuguese:
banco de sangue
— place where human blood or blood plasma is typed and stored
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Russian:
банк кро́ви
(bank króvi)
— place where human blood or blood plasma is typed and stored
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Spanish:
banco de sangre
— place where human blood or blood plasma is typed and stored
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Swedish:
blodbank
— place where human blood or blood plasma is typed and stored
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Tagalog:
bangko ng dugo
— place where human blood or blood plasma is typed and stored
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Turkish:
kan bankası
— place where human blood or blood plasma is typed and stored