Blood Bank

Definition: Blood Bank

Blood Bank

Noun

1. A place for storing whole blood or blood plasma; "the Red Cross created a blood bank for emergencies".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Medicine

Crosswords: Blood Bank

To the blood bank! (Hard to Kill; writing credit: Steven McKay)

Sleeping on the job: They told me at the blood bank that this might happen. (references; author: unknown)

Books

• Blood Bank Reagents: What to Use and When (reference)

• Blood Bank Regulations, A to Z (reference)

• Blood Bank Risk Management (reference)

• Dr. Charles Drew: Blood Bank Innovator (African-American Biographies) (reference)

• Environmental Safety in Blood Bank (reference)

  (more book examples)

Periodicals

• Blood Bank Regulations - A To Z (reference)

• Quarterly Connection - Blood Bank - Notebook (reference)

  (more periodical examples)

[Staff and donors at the Blood Bank, New Orleans, La.]. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

A young prisoner at San Quentin has his temperature and pulse recorded before giving blood to the Red Cross blood bank. Credit: Library of Congress.

Warden Clinton T. Duffy of the San Quentin penitentiary talks with two men who are resting for a few minutes after giving blood to the Red Cross blood bank. Credit: Library of Congress.

Schrafft's, Chrysler Building. Blood bank room I. Credit: Library of Congress.

Electric Institute of Washington. Red Cross blood bank. Credit: Library of Congress.

Health

Ongoing collaborative efforts, including component therapy workshops involving clinicians and blood bank directors, can do much to alter existing practices. (references)

IgA Deficiency is the most common of the PIs. Studies of blood samples from blood bank donors show that IgA Deficiency occurs in as many as 1 of every 333 Americans with a Caucasian background. (references)

Business

In addition to the request for laboratory supplies, the SGH also invites companies to bid on the supply of pharmaceuticals, medical and hospital disposable items, and blood bank items. (references)

Albanian

qendër grumbullimi gjaku. (various references)

Arabic 

‏بنك الدم. (various references)

Czech

krevní banka. (various references)

Danish

blodbank (blood transfusion service, blood-donor service). (various references)

Dutch

bloedtransfusiedienst (blood transfusion service, blood-donor service), bloedbank (blood-donor service). (various references)

Finnish

veripankki (blood-donor service). (various references)

French

banque du sang (blood-donor service). (various references)

German

Blutspendedienst (blood-donor service), Blutbank (blood-donor service). (various references)

Greek 

υπηρεσία αιμοδοσίας (blood transfusion service, blood-donor service), τράπεζα αίματοσ, τράπεζα αίματος (blood-donor service). (various references)

Hebrew 

בנק הדם. (various references)

Hungarian

véradó központ, vérplazma tárolóhely. (various references)

Italian

banca di sangue (blood-donor service), banca del sangue (blood-donor service), emoteka (blood-donor service), emoteca (blood-donor service), emobanca, centro trasfusioni (blood-donor service). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

血液銀行 , ブラウン管 (black, Black Africa, black box, black chamber, black coffee, black comedy, black ghetto, black hole, black humor, black journalism, black magic, black market, black Monday, black money, Black Panther, black pepper, Black Power, black shaft, black tie, blackjack, blacklist, blackout, bland, blank, blanket, blanket area, blood elite, bra, bra cup, bracket, Brad Pitt, branch, brand, brand image, brand loyalty, brandy, brass, brass-band, brasserie, brassie, brassiere, Bratislava, bravo, Brazil, brothers, brunch, brush, brush back pitch, brushy, Brussels, cathode-ray tube). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

ブラッドバンク , けつえきぎんこう. (various references)

Pig Latin

oodblay ankbay.(various references)

Portuguese

banco de sangue (blood-donor service). (various references)

Russian 

банк крови. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

skladište rezerve krvi. (various references)

Spanish

banco de sangre (blood-donor service). (various references)

Swedish

blodbank. (various references)

Turkish

kan bankası. (various references)

Vietnamese 

nhà băng máu. (various references)

Misspellings

"Blood Bank" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: bloodbank. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-3 letters: babool, baboon, doblon, kobold.

-4 letters: aboon, adobo, baboo, bland, blank, blond, blood, dobla, kabob, nabob, nodal.

-5 letters: bald, balk, band, bank, blab, blob, bola, bold, bolo, bond, bonk, boob, book, boon, dank, dona, kaon, knob, koan, kobo, kola, kolo, land, lank, load, loan, lobo, look, loon, nolo, nook, obol.