blood donor
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- noun
- /blʌd ˈdoʊnər/
:
donante de sangre
- At the community event, many people stepped forward to register as blood donors.
- healthy blood donors
- group blood donors
- adult blood donors
Examples
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The hospital thanked every blood donor for their generous contribution to lifesaving treatments.
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We also recruited healthy blood donors as controls.
Academic text (2003) -
We realize that blood donors may not be representative of the general population.
Academic text (1991) -
I am a blood donor waiting in line to make a simple but very needed contribution for the victims.
Fiction book (2001) -
In addition, information is gathered on all blood donors at selected sites.
Academic text (1992) -
Its main objective is to develop an effective network between blood donors and seekers.
Blog text (11) -
Consider signing up to be a blood donor, an organ donor, or a marrow donor.
Blog text (28) -
We randomly selected 106 healthy blood donors without clinical or biochemical signs of hepatitis from our blood bank as the control group.
Academic text (1996) -
She decided to become a blood donor to help those in need during medical emergencies.
Synonyms
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3.0
A person who gives blood or an organ to help another person
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A person with type O negative blood whose blood can be given to people of any blood type
How Invasive
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a person who voluntarily gives blood' is directly and compositionally derived from 'blood' (what is given) and 'donor' (a person who gives). This straightforward noun + noun combination is common cross-linguistically (e.g., Spanish 'donante de sangre') and would be readily inferable by a B1 learner who knows both constituents.
Etymology
The term blood donor comes from the clear image of a person giving their blood. A donor is someone who 'gives', so a blood donor is a person who gives blood to help sick or injured people.