Meanings
nouncryobank (plural cryobanks)
plural cryobanks
- 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
verbcryobank (third-person singular simple present cryobanks, present participle cryobanking, simple past and past participle cryobanked)
present singular third person cryobanks · participle present cryobanking · participle past cryobanked · past cryobanked
- transitiveTo store in such a biobank.
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cryobank. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/cryobank
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“cryobank.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/cryobank. Accessed November 3, 2026.
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WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “cryobank,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/cryobank.
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