blood donation

English

Pronunciation

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Noun

blood donation (countable and uncountable, plural blood donations)

1. The act or process of donating one's blood for use in a transfusion or other medical treatment.

Related terms

• blood donor

Translations

donating one's blood

• Bulgarian: кръводаря́ване (krǎvodarjávane)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 獻血 / 献血 (zh) (xiànxuè)

• Dutch: bloeddonatie (nl) f, bloedgift f (Belgium)
• Finnish: verenluovutus (fi)
• French: don de sang (fr) m
• German: Blutspende (de) f
• Greek: αιμοδοσία (el) f (aimodosía)
• Hungarian: véradás (hu)
• Igala: ẹ̀bìẹ̀-édu
• Italian: please add this translation if you can
• Japanese: 献血 (ja) (けんけつ, kenketsu)
• Korean: 헌혈(獻血) (ko) (heonhyeol)
• Lithuanian: kraujo donorystė f
• Macedonian: крводарителство f (krvodaritelstvo)
• Polish: krwiodawstwo (pl) n
• Portuguese: doação de sangue f
• Romanian: please add this translation if you can
• Spanish: hemodonación f
• Swahili: uchangiaji damu
• Swedish: blodgivning (sv) c
• Telugu: రక్తదానము (raktadānamu)
• Turkish: kan bağışı
• Ukrainian: please add this translation if you can
• Vietnamese: please add this translation if you can

See also

• organ donation
• blood drive