How to Use bone marrow in a Sentence

bone marrow

noun
  • Mast cells are white blood cells produced in bone marrow.
    Anna Giorgi, Verywell Health, 15 July 2024
  • If that doesn’t work, a stem cell or bone marrow transplant is the only option.
    oregonlive, 17 Apr. 2021
  • Leukemia is a type of blood cancer that begins in the bone marrow, where the blood cells are produced.
    Carrie Madormo, Rn, Health, 26 Sep. 2024
  • Platelets are tiny, golden-colored cells made in the bone marrow, which help to stop bleeding.
    Claire Gillespie, Health.com, 26 Apr. 2021
  • Each of them had a life-threatening blood cancer or leukemia, needed a bone marrow transplant for their blood disease.
    Dana Taylor, USA TODAY, 26 Sep. 2024
  • Cancers and other diseases also can be treated with bone marrow transplants.
    Vincent T. Davis, San Antonio Express-News, 30 Mar. 2021
  • Multiple myeloma is a blood cancer that impacts plasma B cells, a type of white blood cell found in the bone marrow.
    William A. Haseltine, Forbes, 13 Sep. 2024
  • The bill would reauthorize a program that matches bone marrow donors and cord blood units with patients who have leukemia and other diseases.
    Daniella Diaz, CNN, 16 Apr. 2021
  • Since bone marrow produces blood cells, subsequent DNA tests on the man’s blood matched his donor’s genome, not his own.
    The Economist, 17 Apr. 2021
  • Martin recently registered to become a bone marrow donor.
    Joseph Hoyt, Dallas News, 19 Mar. 2021
  • Then on dishes such as the risotto alla Milanese, the meaty additions of bone marrow and ossobuco are treated like condiments instead of main attractions.
    Janelle Bitker, San Francisco Chronicle, 22 Mar. 2021
  • Your immune system consists of several parts: your spleen, lymphatic system, bone marrow, white blood cells, thymus, antibodies and the complement system.
    Michael Rodgers, chicagotribune.com, 20 Mar. 2021
  • Leukemia is a type of blood cancer that starts in the bone marrow.
    Ashlyn Messier, Fox News, 24 Sep. 2023
  • In most cases, leukemia starts in the bone marrow and then spreads through the bloodstream.
    Carrie Madormo, Rn, Health, 8 Aug. 2024
  • Those cells, from the bone marrow, produce red and white blood cells.
    Julie Washington, cleveland, 16 June 2021
  • His son, Nicholas, said the cause was bone marrow cancer.
    New York Times, 18 May 2021
  • 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
  • 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
  • Gift of Life uses funds raised to add new donors to the worldwide bone marrow registry.
    Mary Lou Cruz, sun-sentinel.com, 21 May 2021
  • Those cells begin to build up in the bone marrow and blood, per MedlinePlus.
    Barbara Brody, Health.com, 28 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
  • The first, called induction, is designed to kill leukemia cells in the blood and bone marrow and get blood cell counts back to normal.
    Barbara Brody, Health.com, 9 Sep. 2021
  • The report said Grodin died Tuesday of bone marrow cancer at his home in Wilton, Conn.
    Ben Flanagan | Bflanagan@al.com, al, 18 May 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

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