eye bank
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3.7
- noun
- /aɪ bæŋk/
- Specialized
:
banco de ojos
- He had willed his eyes to the University of Puerto Rico eye bank, and his body for research.
Examples
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The hospital received a fresh supply of corneas from the local eye bank for transplantation.
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By visiting our donation webpage and registering to be an eye donor, and by your financial contributions, you are helping the Alabama Eye Bank restore hope to a man and a woman.
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As you know, we've had blood banks and eye banks for years.
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This is a stance that we have always taken, but never really stopped to think about as a primary objective of the Alabama Eye Bank.
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My stepdad used to work with the Arkansas Eye Bank.
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By visiting our DONATION webpage and registering to be an eye donor, and by your financial contributions, you are helping the Alabama Eye Bank restore hope to a man, a woman, a father, or a mother by enhancing their quality of life to enjoy the small pleasures of getting to gaze upon the ones they love and experience memories of smiles gleaming in color.
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Thanks to the advancements in technology, the eye bank can now preserve corneas for longer periods.
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An eye bank plays a crucial role in helping to restore sight to those with damaged or diseased corneas.
Surface Forms
Morphology
The compound combines 'eye' (organ for vision) with 'bank' (a place for storing a reserve), so an average B1 learner who knows both words can infer it denotes a facility that stores eye tissue. This noun-compounding pattern is common cross-linguistically (e.g. blood bank, sperm bank), making the overall meaning transparent even if the precise detail (corneas) might require slight domain knowledge.
Etymology
Eye bank comes from the idea of a bank as a safe place for valuable things and eye for what is kept. Doctors keep donated corneas there until they are needed for surgery, so the phrase means 'a place that stores donated corneas for transplant'.