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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A place where whole blood or plasma is typed, processed, and stored for future use in transfusion.
  • noun Blood or plasma stored in such a place.

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  • noun medicine a place where human blood or blood plasma is typed and stored for use in transfusions
  • noun medicine the range of such blood products stored

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun a place for storing whole blood or blood plasma

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