Cryobank

noun, verb

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A biobank where cryogenically preserved material is stored.

    "In the early 1970s, the first cryobanks, largely run by men, opened in the United States, offering frozen sperm from anonymous donors (often college students), mostly to infertile couples."

Verb
  1. 1
    To store in such a biobank. transitive

Synonyms

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sperm bank

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"In the early 1970s, the first cryobanks, largely run by men, opened in the United States, offering frozen sperm from anonymous donors (often college students), mostly to infertile couples."

Etymology

From cryo- + bank.

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