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milk bank
noun
- a place for collection and storage of human milk for dispensing to those who require it, as for infants who are allergic to cows' milk and whose mothers' milk is unavailable.
Word History and Origins
Origin of milk bank1
Example Sentences
ATTA’s goal is to set up a full-fledged breast milk bank with the ability to pasteurize.
A UNICEF-funded milk bank in Poland set up for mothers in crisis came to the rescue of Evgeniya Loshkarova last September, giving Denis access to milk and his mother psychological support and lactation advice.
Denis was probably nourished with the milk of Karolina Dabik, 37, a former Polish health and safety worker who has donated to the milk bank since August 2022, two months after giving birth to her son.
A milk bank in a hospital in Zielona Gora tube-fed Oleg with milk until Olena was able to breastfeed him.
Loshkarova, who had been found unconscious by the police in her Warsaw apartment in her seventh month of pregnancy after a friend raised the alarm, is grateful to the U.N.-backed milk bank in Poland, which has taken in hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians who fled Russia's invasion.
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