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