bone marrow
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- noun
- /boʊn ˈmɛroʊ/
- Specialized
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médula ósea
- Bone marrow is essential for producing blood cells, which play a crucial role in the immune system.
- bone marrow cells
- bone marrow transplantation
- bone marrow transplant
And you know, while I'm at it, sign up on the bone marrow registry.
- And you know, while I'm at it, sign up on the bone marrow registry.
- People legally sell blood, plasma, sperm, eggs, bone marrow.
- She had a bone marrow transplant.
- What's different about cell therapy is we're not wiping out your bone marrow with drugs before we give you cells back.
- Like it's your bone marrow has to accept someone else's that is going to be making good white blood cells.
- Why would you want to cleanse your bone marrow?
Examples
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Cristina was scheduled for the bone marrow transplant in May of 1995.
Fiction book (1997) -
In people, immune cells are concentrated in the bone marrow and the lymph glands.
Academic text (2003) -
So the bone marrow was pretty much entirely replaced by these cells.
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It's a lot to ask of someone to donate their bone marrow.
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If I had had a bone-marrow transplant, I would have had a 90% chance of living.
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She had a bone marrow transplant.
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He will die without a bone marrow transplant.
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Research has shown that bone marrow injected into broken bones can speed the healing.
Academic text (2012) -
Many leukemia patients and others have survived a medical procedure known as a bone marrow transplant.
Academic text (2005) -
If you have, for example, chronic myelogenous leukemia, a bone marrow transplant is a very real option.
Synonyms
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The soft, fatty tissue inside bones that makes blood cells
How Fatty
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Bone marrow is the soft, fatty tissue inside a bone; this marrow acts like a small factory that 'makes blood cells', so the name tells you it is the inner tissue that produces blood.