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cryobank /cryo·bank/ (kri´o-bank?) a facility for freezing and preserving semen at low temperatures (usually -196.5° C.) for future use.
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| California Cryobank, a Los Angeles-based reproductive tissue bank, promoted Gary Weinhouse to chief executive. And the guy who sells a vial of sperm to a cryobank for fifty dollars has been transformed into a guy who has thoughtfully chosen to give single women or lesbian couples (the majority of the sperm-bank customers) the gift of motherhood. A biometric identification device records a three-dimensional measurement of the donor's hand which is used to confirm the identity of the donor for future visits, or as Cryobank puts it, "to ensure that the man standing at the donor desk really is donor #500. |
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