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cryobank

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English

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Etymology

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From cryo- +‎ bank.

Noun

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cryobank (plural cryobanks)

  1. A biobank where cryogenically preserved material is stored.
    Hypernym: biobank
    • 2019 June 26, Susan Dominus, “Sperm Donors Can’t Stay Secret Anymore. Here’s What That Means.”, in New York Times[1]:
      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

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cryobank (third-person singular simple present cryobanks, present participle cryobanking, simple past and past participle cryobanked)

  1. (transitive) To store in such a biobank.