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blood donor clinic
DCHP-2 (Nov 2012)
Spelling variants:blood-donor clinic, Blood Donor Clinic
n. — Administration
a clinic, usually set up in a temporary location for a day, where people can donate blood.
Type: 5. Frequency — It appears that the earliest blood donor clinics in Canada were set up by the Red Cross during WWII. While blood donor goes back to at least the 1870s, this compound noun appears to be much younger.
The clinics and the term continue to enjoy a high prevalence in Canada (see, e.g. Chart 1), which makes the term a Canadianism in the North American context. Instances of blood donor clinic also appear in the US during the mid-1940s, but the term has fallen into relative disuse there, where the more common terms are blood bank and blood donation center.
See also COD-2, s.v. "blood donor clinic", which is marked "Cdn".
The clinics and the term continue to enjoy a high prevalence in Canada (see, e.g. Chart 1), which makes the term a Canadianism in the North American context. Instances of blood donor clinic also appear in the US during the mid-1940s, but the term has fallen into relative disuse there, where the more common terms are blood bank and blood donation center.
See also COD-2, s.v. "blood donor clinic", which is marked "Cdn".
Quotations
1940
Men from all walks of life meet in the Red Cross blood donor clinic
1951
Students at the University of Alberta will have an opportunity to attend blood donor clinics on the campus commencing this week when a Red Cross team will set up a clinic in St. Stephen's College.
1961
The Red Cross today announced a special blood donor clinic for next Tuesday because of the anticipated drain on the blood bank over the Labor Day weekend.
1977
We can think of a great many worse things that could happen to a person than to have taken an hour or so off, journeyed down to the mayor's blood donor clinic in the municipality of his choice, quaffed a free glass of orange juice, been relieved of one unit (or nine-tenths of a pint) of his blood, sipped a free cup of coffee, and gone home.
1980
At least 160 would-be donors turned up at a blood-donor clinic in the Gazette lobby yesterday. But only 159 pints of blood were collected.
1997
Blood donor clinics are in constant circulation throughout the Island in a great effort to utilize all possible resources.
References
- COD-2
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