A vehicle equipped to collect blood donations from donors in different locations.
Compound of blood and mobile (from Latin mobilis, meaning movable). This 20th-century American coinage combined existing words to describe the new innovation of traveling blood collection units.
The bloodmobile is a perfect example of how language creates new words when society needs them—before organized blood banking in the 1940s, this word didn't exist, and now it's used worldwide to save lives!
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