cord blood

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   blood obtained from the umbilical cord at birth

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Questions about cord blood

What does cord blood mean?

cord blood means "blood obtained from the umbilical cord at birth".

Is cord blood a common word?

cord blood is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.