Definition of "cryobank" []

• A place of storage that uses very low temperatures to preserve semen or transplantable tissues. (noun)

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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."
• "Ted Williams head is probably spinning in its cryobank."
• "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."