blood donation
11Donation (disambiguation) — See also information on donating to the Wikimedia Foundation. Donation may refer to: Donation, a gift given, typically to a cause or/and for charitable purposes Donation box, a box used to collect donations Car donation, the practice of giving… …
12Blood bank — A blood bank is a cache or bank of blood or blood components, gathered as a result of blood donation, stored and preserved for later use in blood transfusions.Transfusion serviceMost hospital blood banks also perform the testing to determine the… …
13Blood bank — A place where blood is collected from donors, typed, separated into components, stored, and prepared for transfusion to recipients. A blood bank may be a separate free standing facility or part of a larger laboratory in a hospital. Separation of… …
14Blood substitute — A blood substitute (also called artificial blood or blood surrogates) is a substance used to mimic and fulfill some functions of biological blood, usually in the oxygen carrying sense. They aim to provide an alternative to blood transfusion,… …
15blood bank — 1. a place where blood or blood plasma is collected, processed, stored, and distributed. 2. such a supply of blood or blood plasma. [1935 40] * * * Organization that collects, stores, processes, and supplies blood. Most blood donations are… …
16donation — donation, benefaction, contribution, alms are comparable when they denote a gift of money or its equivalent for a charitable, philanthropic, or humanitarian object. Donation is freely used for such a gift {blood donations} {seeking small… …
17donation */*/ — UK [dəʊˈneɪʃ(ə)n] / US [doʊˈneɪʃ(ə)n] noun Word forms donation : singular donation plural donations 1) a) [countable] money or goods that you give to an organization, especially one that helps people The bank has promised a donation of £24… …
18Donation — For other uses, see Donation (disambiguation). Donation box in Trinity Church, Copenhagen …
19donation — noun ADJECTIVE ▪ generous, large, sizeable, substantial ▪ small ▪ company, corporate ▪ personal …
20blood — noun ADJECTIVE ▪ cold, hot, warm ▪ clotted, congealed, dried ▪ fresh ▪ arterial …
