Marrow meaning

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Bone marrow.
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Strength or vigor; vitality.
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The soft, vascular, fatty tissue that fills the cavities of most bones.
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The innermost, essential, or choicest part; pith.
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Vitality.
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Bone marrow.
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The spinal cord.
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(uncountable) The substance inside bones which produces blood cells.
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(countable) A kind of vegetable like a large courgette/zucchini or squash.
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The essence; the best part.
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(Scotland) One of a pair; a match; a companion; an intimate associate.
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(Geordie, informal) A friend, pal, buddy, mate.

Cheers marrow!

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Marrow is defined as an innermost, choice part, especially the fatty tissue inside bones.

An example of marrow is the substance in bones that can be donated to a sick person in need of a blood marrow transfusion.

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The spinal cord.
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The marrow squash.
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The inmost, choicest, or essential part; the pith.
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Origin of marrow

Middle English mary, marow, marowe, marowȝ, from Old English mearg, from Proto-Germanic *mazgą, *mazgaz, from Proto-Indo-European *mozgos. See Dutch merg and Russian мозг ("brain").

Sentence Examples

  • This call is immediately answered by an active proliferation and steady maturing of the myclocytes in the marrow to form the polymorpho-nuclear leucocytes.

  • It is largely to researches on the bone marrow that we owe our present knowledge of the origin and the classification of the different cellular elements of the blood, both erythrocytes or red corpuscles, and the series of granular leucocytes or white corpuscles.

  • The healthy bone marrow reacts with remarkable rapidity to the demand for more blood cells which may be required by the organism; its reactions and variations in disease are very striking.

  • The "Marrow men" were marked by the zeal of their service and the effect of their preaching.

  • If the demand be for the red cells owing to loss from haemorrhage or any of the anaemias, the fatty marrow is rapidly replaced by cellular elements; this is mainly an active proliferation of the nucleated red cells, and gives rise to the erythroblastic type of marrow.

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