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  bone-marrow transplant

  noun

  a technique in which a small amount of bone marrow is withdrawn by a syringe from a donor's pelvic bone and injected into a patient whose ability to make new blood cells has been impaired by a disease, as anemia or cancer, or by exposure to radiation.
• bone marrow transplant
  bone marrow transplant

  A technique in which bone marrow is transplanted from one individual to another, or removed from and transplanted to the same individual, in order to stimulate production of blood cells. It is used in the treatment of malignancies, certain forms of anemia, and immunologic deficiencies.

bone-marrow transplant

American  

[bohn-mar-oh] / ˈboʊnˌmær oʊ /

noun

1. Surgery. a technique in which a small amount of bone marrow is withdrawn by a syringe from a donor's pelvic bone and injected into a patient whose ability to make new blood cells has been impaired by a disease, as anemia or cancer, or by exposure to radiation.

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bone marrow transplant Scientific  

1. A technique in which bone marrow is transplanted from one individual to another, or removed from and transplanted to the same individual, in order to stimulate production of blood cells. It is used in the treatment of malignancies, certain forms of anemia, and immunologic deficiencies.

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Example Sentences

In a federal hospital in Seattle in the 1960s, researchers began testing a radical new therapy on patients near death from blood cancers: a bone-marrow transplant.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 19, 2026

It returned a second time, dangerously quick, and she needed a bone-marrow transplant.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 25, 2024

The only cure has been a bone-marrow transplant, which requires finding a donor, undergoing intensive chemotherapy and taking immunosuppressive drugs.

From New York Times • Oct. 30, 2023

Chemotherapy, and then a bone-marrow transplant, were unable to rid it from her body.

From BBC • Dec. 10, 2022

For example, a leukemia patient would not require a sibling with a tissue match for a bone-marrow transplant.

From Textbooks • Apr. 25, 2013