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marrow

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marrow: see bone marrow bone marrow, soft tissue filling the spongy interiors of animal bones. Red marrow is the principal organ that forms blood cells in mammals, including humans (see blood). In children, the bones contain only red marrow.
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marrow
Anatomy the fatty network of connective tissue that fills the cavities of bones


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Her majesty had taken a marrow-bone upon her plate, and, after knocking out the marrow, placed the bone again in the dish erect, as it stood before; the dwarf, watching his opportunity, while Glumdalclitch was gone to the side-board, mounted the stool that she stood on to take care of me at meals, took me up in both hands, and squeezing my legs together, wedged them into the marrow bone above my waist, where I stuck for some time, and made a very ridiculous figure.
Gulliver's Travels by Swift, Jonathan View in context
I know of no greater luxury than giraffe marrow, unless it is elephant's heart, and we had that on the morrow.
King Solomon's Mines by Haggard, Rider H. View in context
You contemplate mentally your mischance, till little by little your mood changes, cold doubt steals into the very marrow of your bones, you see the inexplicable fact in another light.
The Mirror of the Sea by Conrad, Joseph View in context
 
 
 
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