Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A place of storage that uses very low temperatures to preserve semen or transplantable tissues.
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Examples
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The Zoological Society of London is planning the world's first coral "cryobank", which would preserve hundreds of samples of each species in liquid nitrogen.
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Ted Williams head is probably spinning in its cryobank.
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But, if a sperm donor wants to be anonymous and there is a photo of him on the cryobank website, he could be found immediately, even though the sperm bank promised him anonymity.
Alice Crisci: Protecting a Sperm Donor's Privacy in the Digital Age
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But, if a sperm donor wants to be anonymous and there is a photo of him on the cryobank website, he could be found immediately, even though the sperm bank promised him anonymity.
Alice Crisci: Protecting a Sperm Donor's Privacy in the Digital Age
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But, if a sperm donor wants to be anonymous and there is a photo of him on the cryobank website, he could be found immediately, even though the sperm bank promised him anonymity.
Alice Crisci: Protecting a Sperm Donor's Privacy in the Digital Age
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But, if a sperm donor wants to be anonymous and there is a photo of him on the cryobank website, he could be found immediately, even though the sperm bank promised him anonymity.
Alice Crisci: Protecting a Sperm Donor's Privacy in the Digital Age
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When Lisa Cholodenko and her partner Wendy decided to have a child together, they visited the cryobank not far from their home in LA, and started scrolling through the database of donors.
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Rothman said no clients have told the cryobank their child had autism.
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Also, how often can one regional cryobank offer the same man's sperm before the lines get um, crossed, somewhere down the road?
Sperm donor 150 reads in the paper that his children are looking for him.
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But, if a sperm donor wants to be anonymous and there is a photo of him on the cryobank website, he could be found immediately, even though the sperm bank promised him anonymity.
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