cryobank
English edit
Etymology edit
Noun edit
cryobank (plural cryobanks)
- A biobank where cryogenically preserved material is stored.
- Hypernym: biobank
- 2019 June 26, Susan Dominus, “Sperm Donors Can’t Stay Secret Anymore. Here’s What That Means.”, in New York Times[1]:
- In the early 1970s, the first cryobanks, largely run by men, opened in the United States, offering frozen sperm from anonymous donors (often college students), mostly to infertile couples.
Verb edit
cryobank (third-person singular simple present cryobanks, present participle cryobanking, simple past and past participle cryobanked)
- (transitive) To store in such a biobank.