bone-marrow transplant

[bohn-mar-oh]

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 Surgery.,  a technique in which a small amount of bone marrow is withdrawn by a syringe from a donor's pelvic bone and injected into a patient whose ability to make new blood cells has been impaired by a disease, as anemia or cancer,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

bone marrow transplant

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.

Example Sentences

Once I got through that ordeal—months of chemotherapy, a bone-marrow transplant—I took the task up again, this time with new zeal.

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The baffled cops investigated and discovered that the man in question had received a bone-marrow transplant from his brother years earlier.

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

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Isola needed the bone-marrow transplant, and there wasn’t a fully matched donor in her family.

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With a rare type of blood cancer, Dr Nick Embleton's only hope was a bone-marrow transplant.

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