bone marrowin a sentence
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The doctor recommended a bone-marrow transplant because of her liver cancer.
bone-marrow = the fatty network of connective tissue that fills the cavities of bones and produces blood cells
- For nine years she had battled the cancer in her bone marrow; now the contest was ending.† (source)
- It was a voice, a voice to chill the bone marrow, a voice of breathtaking, ice-cold venom.† (source)
- "Bone marrow," Beautiful Hallway Boy says.† (source)
- Gartler concluded his talk by saying, "Where the investigator has assumed a specific tissue of origin of the cell line, i. e., liver … or bone marrow, the work is open to serious question, and in my opinion would be best discarded.† (source)
- Because you can't be as in love as we were and not have it invade your bone marrow.† (source)
- "I don't mean we should do bone-marrow transplants in Cange, but proven therapies," he'd say in lectures.† (source)
- All the oil in my joints has drained out and I have been invaded by dust and grit from the fields and mud is in my bone marrow.† (source)
- A bone marrow transplant.† (source)
- His bone marrow was quiet when I first learned of his diagnosis.† (source)
- The flesh had healed, but the bone marrow thumped with pain and reminded him of the "guvmint" men.† (source)
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- And the chemo and the radiation and the bone marrow transplants didn't do anything but make him sicker faster and with much more ferocity than before.† (source)
- A plane passing overhead set his bone marrow to quiver.† (source)
- I could touch the stones the old woman wore-its bone marrow.† (source)
- But as she lay there looking up, trying to return the stranger's quizzical sad smile, she could feel the ponderous drowsiness and lassitude persisting to her bone marrow.† (source)
- Grandma was seeing a lot of doctors these days, because she had cancer in her bone marrow.† (source)
- Is it the strange gnashing sound of insects with their mandibles moving through the bone marrow?† (source)
- "Hemopoiesis, the formation of blood cells in the bone marrow" "Dr.† (source)
- He could only be there to talk about the bone marrow procedure.† (source)
- Pearls are bone marrow; pearls come from oysters.† (source)
- At first Moore didn't think much of the trips, but after years of flying from Seattle to L.A. so Golde could take bone marrow, blood, and semen, he started thinking, Can't a doctor in Seattle do this?† (source)
- Moore thought that was odd, but he didn't get suspicious until one day in 1983—seven years after his surgery—when a nurse handed him a new consent form that said: I (do, do not) voluntarily grant to the University of California all rights I, or my heirs, may have in any cell line or any other potential product which might be developed from the blood and/or bone marrow obtained from me.† (source)
- Everything was done, Aunt Emily said, officially, unofficially, at all levels, and the message to disappear worked its way deep into the Nisei heart and into the bone marrow.† (source)
- Of those who do not respond, a similar percentage can be ultimately treated through a bone marrow transplant.† (source)
- A bone marrow transplant might be next.† (source)
- I didn't know which held more apprehension for me: going on chemo and gearing up for a bone marrow transplant or feeling my strength eaten away from the inside.† (source)
- They thought that perhaps gamma rays, entering the body at the time of the explosion, made the phosphorus in the victim's bones radio-active, and that they in turn emitted beta particles, which, though they could not penetrate far through flesh, could enter the bone marrow, where blood is manufactured, and gradually tear it down.† (source)
- Essentially, Rachel's blood and bone marrow were being invaded by aggressive, fast-moving cancer cells.† (source)
- But leukemia is cancer of the blood and bone marrow, so it's spread throughout your entire body, so you can't just go in and cut it out with knives.† (source)
- "Acute" means that the leukemia basically came out of nowhere and is growing really quickly, and "myelogenous" has to do with bone marrow.† (source)
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