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the soft factory inside your bones, cranking out blood while you do nothing
means The soft fatty tissue inside bones where blood cells are made — or, in cooking, this same substance prized as a rich delicacy, and also the name of a long green squash.
from From Old English 'mearg' or 'mærg,' meaning the inside of a bone, with deep Germanic roots — a cousin of Old High German 'marg' and related to words across the Germanic family, and possibly further back to a Proto-Indo-European root meaning 'fat' or 'cream.' The vegetable 'marrow' borrowed the name later, likely for its soft, rich inner flesh — the same logic that gives us 'the marrow of the matter,' the essential innermost core.
- blood maker
- Produces billions of new cells daily
- prime real estate
- Hides in your largest, strongest bones
- transplant gold
- Donated marrow can cure leukemia
- culinary cut
- Roasted and spread like savory butter
- fat shift
- Red marrow turns yellow as you age
bone marrow transplant — first successful allogeneic transplant performed by e. donnall thomas in 1956, now thousands done annually for leukemia and lymphoma