Definition of Red marrow

1. Noun. Bone marrow of children and some adult bones that is required for the formation of red blood cells.

Exact synonyms: Red Bone Marrow
Generic synonyms: Bone Marrow, Marrow

Lexicographical Neighbors of Red Marrow

red laver
red lead
red lemonade
red letter day
red letter law
red light
red line
red link
red links
red lion
red maids
red man
red man syndrome
red mange
red maple
red marrow (current term)
red meat
red meats
red mercury
red mist
red morning-glory
red mud
red mulberry
red mullet
red muscle
red neck syndrome
red neuralgia
red noise
red nucleus
red oak

Literary usage of Red marrow

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Text-book of histology by Frederick Randolph Bailey (1904)
"red marrow is found in all bones of embryos and of young animals, ... The difference in color between red marrow and yellow marrow is due to the much ..."

2. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and (1910)
"If any long-continued demand for red corpuscles is made, the fat is absorbed, and its place gradually taken by red marrow. This compensatory change is found ..."

3. A Text-book of Histology by Frederick Randolph Bailey (1906)
"Marrow occurs in two forms—red marrow and yellow marrow. red marrow is found in all bones of embryos and of young animals, also in the vertebra, sternum, ..."

4. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1880)
"The resemblance of the nucleated form to cells of red marrow was evident. ... The nucleus is never in the middle of the red marrow cells. ..."

5. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1883)
"(Left) Fatty marrow obtained from distal tibia; (right) red marrow obtained from proximal femur (x 100). Fig. 2. Nine days after implant at the stage of ..."

6. Quain's Elements of Anatomy by Jones Quain, Allen Thomson, George Dancer Thane (1882)
"In the peculiar pale cells of the red marrow which ... Observations which I have myself made on the red marrow of the guinea-pig have tended to confirm the ..."

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