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Producer of blood cells
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bone marrow
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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ A search for a suitable bone marrow or umbilical cord donor for Garrett is under way. ▪ An international search for a bone marrow donor led to Janet Pope, a doctor's receptionist from Princes Risborough. ▪ Chemotherapy worked ...
Wikipedia
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Bone marrow is the flexible tissue in the interior of bones . In humans , red blood cells are produced by cores of bone marrow in the heads of long bones in a process known as hematopoiesis . On average, bone marrow constitutes 4% of the total body mass ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
alt. (context anatomy English) The fatty vascular tissue that fills the cavities of bones; the place where new blood cells are produced. n. (context anatomy English) The fatty vascular tissue that fills the cavities of bones; the place where new blood cells ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. the fatty network of connective tissue that fills the cavities of bones [syn: marrow ] very tender and very nutritious tissue from marrowbones [syn: marrow ]
Usage examples of bone marrow.
On the ground glass portion of the slide was written: MICHELLE MAR- TEL #882673 BONE MARROW.
He says that we might have to think about a bone marrow transplant.
The treat of the bone marrow was always kept back for the hunters, after the bones were cracked in the intense heat of their own fire.
White cells proliferated out of the bone marrow and flooded the system, attacking healthy systems.
Cedars-Sinai Hospital, five years ago, blood and bone marrow samples had been taken from him because it was his father's emotional decision that the Alpha-series clones should be developed from his lost boy's genetic material.
In a vision-flash of quasi-memory, she had seen herself walking along the bed of one of Los Angeles' notorious cement-paved rivers, something she knew down to the molecules of her bone marrow she had never done and would never do.
Sweat seemed to burst from his pores like bone marrow squeezed through his skin.
Scavenging for bone marrow was in the same program, and similarly critical.