Phrase guide

blood bank

noun · 3 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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1

noun

Meaning 1

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

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Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

2

noun

Meaning 2

The range of such blood products stored.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Topics: medicine, sciences

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3

noun

Meaning 3

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

History

Etymology

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Across languages

Translations

29 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Catalan: banc de sang — place where human blood or blood plasma is typed and stored
  • Chinese Mandarin: 血庫 /血库 (xuèkù) — place where human blood or blood plasma is typed and stored
  • Danish: blodbank — place where human blood or blood plasma is typed and stored
  • Dutch: bloedbank — place where human blood or blood plasma is typed and stored
  • Faroese: blóðbanki — place where human blood or blood plasma is typed and stored
  • Finnish: veripankki — place where human blood or blood plasma is typed and stored
  • French: banque du sang — place where human blood or blood plasma is typed and stored
  • Georgian: სისხლის ბანკი (sisxlis banḳi) — place where human blood or blood plasma is typed and stored
  • German: Blutbank — place where human blood or blood plasma is typed and stored
  • Hebrew: בנק דם — place where human blood or blood plasma is typed and stored
  • Hungarian: vérbank — place where human blood or blood plasma is typed and stored
  • Icelandic: blóðbanki — place where human blood or blood plasma is typed and stored
  • Irish: banc fola — place where human blood or blood plasma is typed and stored
  • Italian: banca del sangue — place where human blood or blood plasma is typed and stored
  • Japanese: 血液銀行 (ketsuekiginkō) — place where human blood or blood plasma is typed and stored
  • Kazakh: қан банкі (qan bankı) — place where human blood or blood plasma is typed and stored
  • Khmer: លោហិតាគារ (loohetaakiə) — place where human blood or blood plasma is typed and stored
  • Korean: 혈액은행 (hyeoraegeunhaeng) — place where human blood or blood plasma is typed and stored
  • Kyrgyz: кан сактагыч (kan saktagıc) — place where human blood or blood plasma is typed and stored
  • Marathi: रक्तपेढी (raktapeḍhī) — place where human blood or blood plasma is typed and stored
  • Norwegian Bokmål: blodbank — place where human blood or blood plasma is typed and stored
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: blodbank — place where human blood or blood plasma is typed and stored
  • Polish: bank krwi — place where human blood or blood plasma is typed and stored
  • Portuguese: banco de sangue — place where human blood or blood plasma is typed and stored
  • Russian: банк кро́ви (bank króvi) — place where human blood or blood plasma is typed and stored
  • Spanish: banco de sangre — place where human blood or blood plasma is typed and stored
  • Swedish: blodbank — place where human blood or blood plasma is typed and stored
  • Tagalog: bangko ng dugo — place where human blood or blood plasma is typed and stored
  • Turkish: kan bankası — place where human blood or blood plasma is typed and stored