bank

bank

 [bank]

a stored supply of human material or tissues for future use by other individuals, such as a blood bank, bone bank, eye bank, or skin bank.

Miller-Keane Encyclopedia and Dictionary of Medicine, Nursing, and Allied Health, Seventh Edition. © 2003 by Saunders, an imprint of Elsevier, Inc. All rights reserved.

bank

(bank),

Any facility for storage of viable preserved tissue, blood, or medical supplies for future study or use.

[Fr. banque, fr. It. banca, bench, teller's counter, fr. Germanic]

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bank

A central repository for something of value, for future withdrawal or retrieval.

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bank

A central repository of something of value, for future withdrawal or retrieval. See Blood bank, Brain bank, National Practitioner Data Bank, Organ Bank, Sperm bank, Tissue bank.

McGraw-Hill Concise Dictionary of Modern Medicine. © 2002 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.

bank

(bangk)

Any facility for storage of viable preserved tissue, blood, or medical supplies for future study or use.

[Fr. banque, fr. It. banca, bench, teller's counter, fr. Germanic]

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