Beth Macy

So many white people don't want to talk about race; it's uncomfortable. Many reason that slavery happened more than a century ago, and people alive today had nothing to do with it. But the particulars of these stories, from slavery to segregation to civil rights and mass incarceration, are at the marrow of life in America today.

American Journalist

Sheryl Lee

My doctor suggested doing some blood tests and immediately discovered that my white blood cell count was low. So then I went through many more tests including bone marrow biopsies until they figured out that I had neutropenia.

American Actor

Thomas Merton

Death is someone you see very clearly with eyes in the center of your heart: eyes that see not by reacting to light, but by reacting to a kind of a chill from within the marrow of your own life.

American Author

D. H. Lawrence

Oh literature, oh the glorious Art, how it preys upon the marrow in our bones. It scoops the stuffing out of us, and chucks us aside. Alas!

English Writer

Drew Barrymore

If you're going to be alive and on this planet, you have to, like, suck the marrow out of every day and get the most out of it.

American Actress

Craig Sager

I will continue to keep fighting sucking the marrow out of life as life sucks the marrow out of me.

Robin Coste Lewis

I am an artist through to my marrow, which might be a curse and not necessarily a good thing.

American Poet

Sissy Spacek

I hated country music growing up, but it gets in your bone marrow, kind of like a disease.

Richard Mourdock

I believe life is precious; I believe that to the marrow of my bones.

American Politician

Sid Waddell

British Entertainer

Used when discussing health treatments or conditions that affect the blood.

Medical Context

Bone marrow is commonly referenced in transplant contexts to treat blood disorders.

Transplant Specific

Refers to the edible, fleshy interior of certain vegetables, used in cooking.

Culinary Use

Used figuratively to denote the core or heart of any matter or experience.

Metaphorical Use

Might be used to give a text an old-fashioned or literary quality.

Literary Flavor

In a gardening or agricultural context, it specifically refers to a type of plant.

Gardening Reference

In the UK, 'marrow' is primarily used to describe a type of green squash.

British English

Used to commend someone's inner strength or resilience.

Emotional Strength

Speaks to someone's courage, often used to inspire or in times of challenge.

Figurative Courage

 which sounds absolutely horrible until you realize, the reason you're doing that is you're substituting bone marrow during cancer treatments. So by taking somebody else's bone marrow, you may be changing some fundamental aspects of yourself, but you're also saving your life. And as you're thinking about this stuff,

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 a tough membrane that covers and protects. Next, there's a thick layer of compact bone, the white, hard, smooth part that most people are familiar with. But inside, there is spongy or trabecular bone, and an inner core filled with bone marrow, which contains stem cells that make blood and are constantly dividing.

Why healthy bones are...

 and keep up with the body's needs. One example is the bone marrow, where stem cells differentiate into many types of blood cells. That includes red blood cells, which carry oxygen from the lungs to all tissues, platelets, which help stop bleeding by sticking to damaged blood vessels,

What is leukemia? -...

 crucial for his body to keep up this is the lower right leg from a young bull moose fifteen or sixteen months old and I'm gonna break it to get the marrow out of course you can use a saw to get to the marrow but I found that by supporting the bone between two large

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 The immune system relies on millions of defensive white blood cells, also known as leukocytes, that originate in our bone marrow. These cells migrate into the bloodstream and the lymphatic system, a network of vessels which helps clear bodily toxins and waste.

How does your immune...

 to reduce the amount of sickling, blunting symptoms and increasing life expectancy. Bone marrow transplantations offer a curative measure, but these procedures are complicated and often inaccessible. But promising new medications are intervening in novel ways,

How this disease changes...

 I didn't bring a human brain, but I did bring a liter of bone marrow. And bone marrow is actually what we use to save the lives of tens of thousands of patients, most of whom have advanced malignancies like leukemia and lymphoma and some other diseases.

Daniel Kraft invents a...

 filled with soft bone marrow. Marrow contains fat and other supportive tissue, but its most essential elements are blood stem cells. These stem cells are constantly dividing. They can differentiate into red blood cells, white blood cells, and platelets,

How bones make blood -...

 and asked a simple Would stem cells from the bone marrow be protective of their nerves? So what we did was we took this bone marrow, grew up the stem cells in the lab, and then injected them back into the vein. I'm making this sound really simple.

Siddharthan Chandran:...

 Discoverer of the x-ray we've come a long way since then and it turns out bones are anything but dry deep in the center of many bones in this tissue called the marrow some 120 million

Marrow

A soft tissue in the middle of bones where blood cells are produced.

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The inside part of vegetables like cucumbers, squashes which can be eaten.

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The essential or most important part of something.

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A type of squash vegetable.

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Courage, or strength of character.

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Medical Context

Transplant Specific

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