"marrow" is a valid word in written English.
It can be used as a noun referring to (1) the soft, fatty tissue inside bones, or (2) a vegetable similar to a squash. Example: The marrow of the bones in my leg had been damaged by the fracture.
This neighbourhood used to be the site of Venice's abbatoir, and Marisa made a reputation for nose-to-tail cuisine with dishes such as risotto con le secoe, using beef bone marrow.
Chemotherapy was used to destroy the cancerous cells in his immune system, replacing the tissue with bone marrow from a donor with a natural immunity to the virus.
You also can't give blood for four months, and bone marrow donors are advised to wait for up to a year.
Even when I'm sure he wanted to spit out a bit of bone marrow.
"The APOBEC3H gene could become part of the donor screening progress for future bone marrow transplants.
By this stage of the film, anyone who cares about the marrow of labour politics has her head in her hands.
Kim suffered from a rare bone-marrow disease twinned with cancer.
He widened highways, expanded hospitals for children and ex-servicemen and poured taxpayers' cash into such causes as the University of South Florida (USF) and national bone-marrow registries.
In Taiwan it runs hospitals, schools, a university, recycling centres and one of the world's largest bone-marrow banks.
They report in Biomaterials that the transplanted cells behaved as if they were in real bone-marrow tissue, growing and dividing as they would normally.
Moreover, an HIV patient called Timothy Brown (pictured) who, in 2007 and 2008, had bone-marrow transplants from a donor with broken CCR5 genes, has since been clear of HIV.
