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blood bank

cache or bank of blood components, stored for later use, e.g. in blood transfusion or they reserve blood for later and emergency use e.g. delivery of baby
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blood bank

Summary

blood bank ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (842 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • blood bank's field of work was blood preservation[2].
  • blood bank is credited with the discovery of Charles Drew[3].
  • blood bank is a type of warehouse[4].
  • blood bank is a type of biobank[5].
  • blood bank's Commons category is recorded as Blood banks[6].
  • blood bank's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Blood banks[7].
  • blood bank's OpenStreetMap tag is recorded as healthcare=blood_bank[8].
  • blood bank's different from is recorded as blood collection center[9].
  • blood bank's uses is recorded as blood donation[10].
  • blood bank's P14692 is recorded as Castle of Rivoli[11].

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Definition and Type

Recorded subclass of include warehouse[4] and biobank[5].

Why It Matters

blood bank ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (842 views/month).[1] It has Wikipedia articles in 22 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[12] It is known by 34 alternative names across languages and contexts.[13]

Related Entities

Bloodworks Northwest

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  5. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [12] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [13] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 9d ago · Susmuffin · 2026-09-08 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Harper's tag → blood-banks
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ [[Property:P13772]]: blood-banks, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/289910595|blood banks (#289910595)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/7915|Harper's tag]] "
  2. 27d ago · Lucidieaux · 2026-08-21 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14692 → Castle of Rivoli
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/48943|batch #48943]]: Add OSM wiki item IDs to items with matching OSM tags"
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