bone-marrow transplant

[bohn-mar-oh]

bone-mar·row trans·plant

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 a technique in which a small amount of bone marrow is withdrawn by a syringe from a donor's pelvic bone and injected into a patient whose ability to make new blood cells has been impaired by a disease, as anemia or cancer,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