Marrow Definition

mărō
noun
The soft, vascular, fatty tissue that fills the cavities of most bones.
Webster's New World
The spinal cord.
American Heritage Medicine
The marrow squash.
American Heritage
The innermost, essential, or choicest part; pith.
Webster's New World
Vitality.
Webster's New World
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Other Word Forms of Marrow

Noun

Singular:
marrow
Plural:
marrows

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").

    From Wiktionary

  • Middle English marow from Old English mearg

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From Old Norse margr.

    From Wiktionary

Marrow 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.

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

  • In a bone marrow biopsy, a slightly larger needle is used.

  • 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.

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Words Starting With

MMAMAR

Words Ending With

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6 Letter Words6 Letter Words Starting With M6 Letter Words Ending With W