Therapeutic or Preventive Procedure
blood preservation
blood pres·er·va·tion
Subclass of:
Tissue Preservation
Definitions related to blood preservation:
  • Process by which blood or its components are kept viable outside of the organism from which they are derived; for example, kept from decay by means of a chemical agent, cooling, or a fluid substitute that mimics the natural state within the organism; may be for preservation to transplant into an organism or for permanent preservation.
    CRISP Thesaurus
    National Institutes of Health, 2006
  • The process by which blood or its components are kept viable outside of the organism from which they are derived (i.e., kept from decay by means of a chemical agent, cooling, or a fluid substitute that mimics the natural state within the organism).
    NLM Medical Subject Headings
    U.S. National Library of Medicine, 2021
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