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The soft tissue filling the cavities of bones. Bone marrow exists in two types, yellow and red. Yellow marrow is found in the large cavities of large bones and consists mostly of fat cells and a few primitive blood cells. Red marrow is a hematopoietic tissue and is the site of production of erythrocytes and granular leukocytes. Bone marrow is made up of a framework of connective tissue containing branching fibers with the frame being filled with marrow cells.
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- Marrow, Bone
- Marrow
- Red Marrow
- Yellow Marrow
- Marrow, Red
- Marrow, Yellow
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Indexed with the subheadings abnormalities, anatomy & histology, blood supply, chemistry, diagnostic imaging, drug effects, embryology, enzymology, growth & development, immunology, injuries, innervation, metabolism, microbiology, parasitology, pathology, physiology, physiopathology, radiation effects, surgery, ultrastructure, virology.
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/cytol = BONE MARROW CELLS; /transpl = BONE MARROW TRANSPLANTATION: do not coord with TRANSPLANTATION, HOMOLOGOUS; inflammation = OSTEOMYELITIS; fibrosis = MYELOFIBROSIS; do not confuse words containing "myel-" for spinal cord with "myel-" for bone marrow
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65; BONE MARROW CELLS was heading 1965-77; /transplantation was BONE MARROW TRANSPLANTATION 1964-65, was BONE MARROW/transplantation 1966-89
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References
- National Library of Medicine. Bone Marrow. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D001853. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D001853
- Bone Marrow. In: Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bone_marrow
- Bone Marrow. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q546523