MARROW


Meaning of MARROW in English

noun

COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES

bone marrow

a bone marrow transplant

chill sb to the bone/chill sb to the marrow/chill sb’s blood (= frighten sb a lot )

He jerked his head round and saw something that chilled his blood.

chilled to the bone/marrow (= extremely cold )

Come and sit by the fire – you look chilled to the bone.

marrow bone

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ NOUN

bone

A child of Svetlana had desperately needed a bone marrow transplant.

His only chance of survival was a bone marrow transplant.

Chemotherapy worked on cancer but was destroying her bone marrow , so treatment had to be altered.

The treatment was first tested in patients who received transplants of bone marrow .

Are they floating aimlessly, or have they migrated to his bone marrow , where they belong?

The generation of blood cells takes place primarily in the bone marrow and spleen.

In adults, normal bone marrow contains largely fat and therefore has a high signal.

donor

An international search for a bone marrow donor led to Janet Pope, a doctor's receptionist from Princes Risborough.

The Anthony Nolan Research Centre manages the world's largest register of potential bone marrow donors .

transplant

A child of Svetlana had desperately needed a bone marrow transplant .

Growth hormones and bone marrow transplants have been tried with little gain, said Shapiro.

His only chance of survival was a bone marrow transplant .

He received two blood transfusions after a bone marrow transplant and wanted the name so he could sue the donor.

D' ya think the City Hospital would do bone marrow transplant ?

■ VERB

chill

Soaked to the skin and chilled to the marrow of her bones, she shivered uncontrollably.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

Her mentor, Jim Teyechea, pushed Nogales' plight into the national spotlight, before he died of bone marrow cancer.

If it was conditioning it was deep as her bones and marrow .

My bone marrow was harvested a couple of weeks ago and the whole thing was a piece of cake.

On May 29, a bone marrow test confirmed the worst.

Other potential side effects of colchicine include bone marrow depression, hepatotoxicity, alopecia, neurologic disturbances, and renal damage.

Radium is readily absorbed into the body where it concentrates in the bone marrow and gives off very damaging alpha particles.

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