tissue banks
Biological material depositories
Tissue banks are facilities that collect, process, preserve, and distribute human tissues for medical use.
These include skin, bone, heart valves, corneas, and other biological materials needed for transplantation, research, or therapeutic purposes.
Like blood banks, they maintain inventories of donated biological materials: The hospital contacted several tissue banks to find a suitable graft.
- organBody's working component
- donationVoluntary charitable gift
- body partsCorporeal structural elements
- cryopreservationLow-temperature biological preservation
- stem cellsUndifferentiated cells with regenerative potential
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- histologyhistology, cells, microscope slides, microscope slide, counterstain
tissue bankscrematoriums
Corpse incineration facilities
cremation services · operating rooms · pathology labs · autoclaves
tissue banksorgan trafficking
Illicit trade in human parts
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