BLOOD DONOR

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does blood donor mean? 

• BLOOD DONOR (noun)
  The noun BLOOD DONOR has 1 sense:

1. someone who gives blood to be used for transfusions

  Familiarity information: BLOOD DONOR used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BLOOD DONOR (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Someone who gives blood to be used for transfusions

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("blood donor" is a kind of...):

donor ((medicine) someone who gives blood or tissue or an organ to be used in another person (the host))

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "blood donor"):

universal donor (a person whose type O Rh-negative blood may be safely transfused into persons with other blood types)

 Context examples 

An organization based in Leiden, Netherlands that coordinates the collection of HLA phenotypes from volunteer stem cell donors and cord blood donors, and is responsible for coordination of their distribution worldwide.

(Bone Marrow Donors Worldwide, NCI Thesaurus)