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cryobanks

cryobanks is the plural of cryobank.

Meaning of cryobank

Noun

cryobank (plural cryobanks)

  1. A biobank where cryogenically preserved material is stored.
    • 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.2019 June 26, Susan Dominus, “Sperm Donors Can’t Stay Secret Anymore. Here’s What That Means.”, in New York Times

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Questions about cryobanks

What is cryobanks the plural of?
Cryobanks is the plural of cryobank.

Words near cryobanks in the dictionary

  1. cryoballoon
  2. cryoballoons
  3. cryobank
  4. cryobanked
  5. cryobanking
  6. cryobanks
  7. cryobath
  8. cryobaths
  9. cryobed
  10. cryobeds
  11. cryobench

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