How to Use bone marrow in a Sentence

bone marrow

noun
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  • Callagan said his bone marrow transplant has not yet been rescheduled.
    — oregonlive, 21 Sep. 2021
  • The abnormal red blood cells told him that something was wrong in her bone marrow, where blood is made.
    — New York Times, 30 Sep. 2021
  • These are cooked over charcoal and oak and served with a bone marrow, parsley and shallot salad.
    — Angelina Villa-Clarke, Forbes, 14 Sep. 2021
  • Leukemia is a blood cancer that starts in the bone marrow, which is where your red blood cells, white blood cells, and platelets are produced.
    — Barbara Brody, Health.com, 29 Sep. 2021
  • Although treatments exist, the only cure is a risky bone marrow or stem cell transplant.
    — Tanya Lewis, Scientific American, 18 Oct. 2021
  • Those cells begin to build up in the bone marrow and blood, per MedlinePlus.
    — Barbara Brody, Health.com, 28 Sep. 2021
  • This type of leukemia impact the myeloid stem cells in the bone marrow—the ones that go on to become healthy red and white blood cells, as well as platelets.
    — Barbara Brody, Health.com, 30 Sep. 2021
  • In both trials, the patients’ own bone marrow stem cells were collected and isolated.
    — Tanya Lewis, Scientific American, 18 Oct. 2021
  • Multiple myeloma is an incurable blood cancer arising from plasma cells in the bone marrow.
    — Jennifer Kite-Powell, Forbes, 22 Sep. 2021
  • Bella is the first here at SickKids to receive a bowel transplant after a bone marrow transplant.
    — Sara Vallone, Miami Herald, 15 July 2024
  • But Callagan, 72, has a condition called multiple myeloma, a blood cancer of the bone marrow.
    — oregonlive, 21 Sep. 2021
  • Leukemia is a type of blood cancer that starts in the bone marrow.
    — Ashlyn Messier, Fox News, 24 Sep. 2023
  • One is strontium-90, which can cause cancer in bones and bone marrow, as well as leukemia.
    — Hart Rapaport, Scientific American, 4 Apr. 2022
  • The drug could be used to replace bone marrow transplants.
    — Kevin Purdy, Ars Technica, 16 Nov. 2023
  • Roasted bone marrow is cooled, carved from the bone and served as nigiri.
    — Jenn Harriscolumnist, Los Angeles Times, 30 Mar. 2022
  • Benzene has also been linked to leukemia, a cancer of the blood and bone marrow.
    — Korin Miller, Health.com, 3 Dec. 2021
  • By 2010, though, about half of his bone marrow cells were cancer cells.
    — Karen Weintraub, USA TODAY, 2 Feb. 2022
  • Leukemia is a type of blood cancer that changes how bone marrow functions.
    — Barbara Brody, Health, 31 Oct. 2023
  • In polycythemia vera, the bone marrow makes too much red blood cells.
    — Dr. Keith Roach, oregonlive, 11 Nov. 2021
  • That includes a 9-year-old girl who was brought out of Gaza to donate bone marrow to her sick brother.
    — Elizabeth Robinson, NBC News, 26 Mar. 2024
  • The new treatments are technically not a cure in the same way a bone marrow transplant would be.
    — Dr. Darien Sutton-Ramsey, ABC News, 8 Dec. 2023
  • His son David said the cause was myelodysplastic syndrome, a rare form of blood and bone marrow cancer.
    — Richard Sandomir, BostonGlobe.com, 28 May 2023
  • To do so, chemotherapy is used to destroy the patient’s bone marrow.
    — Berkeley Lovelace Jr., NBC News, 8 Dec. 2023
  • Many of the bones had cut marks that showed the Denisovans were processing the animals for their hides as well as meat and bone marrow.
    — Katie Hunt, CNN, 3 July 2024
  • Two of the treatments were high dose and required a bone marrow transplant to recover.
    — Baltimore Sun, 30 Mar. 2023
  • Multiple myeloma is a type of blood cancer that forms in the plasma cells, or white blood cells in the bone marrow.
    — Barbara Brody, Health, 9 June 2024
  • So, at two years old, Amelia received Shawen's life-saving bone marrow.
    — Akira Kumamoto, USA TODAY, 20 Apr. 2022
  • Earlier this month, a bone marrow donor was confirmed and a transplant date was set for next month.
    — Emily Alvarenga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 June 2023
  • That's the case with the roasted bone marrow, a European delicacy that's served in a very Flagstaff way.
    — Andi Berlin, The Arizona Republic, 11 May 2022
  • Alcohol of any type does affect the bone marrow and is one of the more common causes of low platelets and anemia.
    — Dr. Keith Roach, oregonlive, 2 Aug. 2022

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