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pool (pldbomacl)
1. a common reservoir on which to draw; a supply available to be used by a group.
2. to create such a reservoir or supply, as the mixing of plasma from several donors.
3. an accumulation, as of blood in a part of the body due to retardation of the venous circulation.

pool (pl)
n.
A collection of blood in any region of the body due to dilation and retardation of the circulation in capillaries and veins.

pool
Medtalk The totality of a substance, material or resource in a 'universe'–eg, metabolic pool, donor pool, gene pool. See Gene pool, High-risk pool, Reinsurance pool, Risk pool, Storage pool, Whirlpool, Zero work pool.


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