Synonyms for marrow
ˈmær oʊmar·row

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1. marrow

   Synonyms:
   pith, gist, substance, essence, life, cream, kernel

   Antonyms:
   surplusage, redundancy, excrescence, superfluity, clothing, dressing, amplification, volume, mass, body

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1. marrow, bone marrownoun

   the fatty network of connective tissue that fills the cavities of bones

   Synonyms:
   marrow squash, nitty-gritty, meat, core, inwardness, bone marrow, sum, gist, heart and soul, substance, nub, center, centre, kernel, essence, heart, vegetable marrow, pith

2. marrow, marrow squash, vegetable marrownoun

   any of various squash plants grown for their elongated fruit with smooth dark green skin and whitish flesh

   Synonyms:
   marrow squash, nitty-gritty, meat, core, inwardness, bone marrow, sum, gist, heart and soul, substance, nub, center, centre, kernel, essence, heart, vegetable marrow, pith

3. marrow, bone marrownoun

   very tender and very nutritious tissue from marrowbones

   Synonyms:
   marrow squash, nitty-gritty, meat, core, inwardness, bone marrow, sum, gist, heart and soul, substance, nub, center, centre, kernel, essence, heart, vegetable marrow, pith

4. marrow, vegetable marrownoun

   large elongated squash with creamy to deep green skins

   Synonyms:
   marrow squash, nitty-gritty, meat, core, inwardness, bone marrow, sum, gist, heart and soul, substance, nub, center, centre, kernel, essence, heart, vegetable marrow, pith

5. kernel, substance, core, center, centre, essence, gist, heart, heart and soul, inwardness, marrow, meat, nub, pith, sum, nitty-grittynoun

   the choicest or most essential or most vital part of some idea or experience

   "the gist of the prosecutor's argument"; "the heart and soul of the Republican Party"; "the nub of the story"

   Synonyms:
   affection, summation, warmness, sum of money, sum total, means, affectionateness, substance, center of attention, center field, content, nucleus, plaza, meaning, meat, bone marrow, centre, burden, stub, center, tenderness, snapper, core, totality, heart and soul, sum, fondness, total, nerve, core group, internality, marrow squash, nerve center, shopping center, aggregate, nub, join, kernel, nitty-gritty, union, spirit, centerfield, gist, warmheartedness, nerve centre, inwardness, centre of attention, pith, heart, shopping mall, nubble, bosom, mall, essence, ticker, message, pump, magnetic core, effect, mettle, shopping centre, perfume, spunk, philia, subject matter, amount of money, midpoint, vegetable marrow, eye, amount, middle

Matched Categories

1. • Connective Tissue
   • Content
   • Delicacy
   • Summer Squash

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1. marrownoun

   Synonyms:
   medulla, pith

2. marrownoun

   Synonyms:
   essence, quintessence, best part, essential part

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1. marrownoun

   Synonyms:
   medulla, pith

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1. List of paraphrases for "marrow":

   pith, spinal, cord, medullary, bone, medulla, bone-marrow

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1. Gail Demmler:

   CMV can affect the liver the spleen the bone marrow, lungs, heart, but the most devastating thing it can do is damage the brain, it causes brain damage, vision impairment, hearing loss … but it can affect any organ system.

2. Mrinal Patnaik:

   I trained in the early 2000s, when there was not a single oral agent for the management of AML, one of my professors had told me that AML was akin to a warlike situation where sometimes, you had to bomb the village in order to save it. We would throw these drugs that would kill everything and hope patients would recover with normal bone marrow.

3. Lukasiewicz Hagai:

   We've been investigating the placenta for the last decade and we have discovered that the placenta cells have unique properties that can help the body to recover after exposure to high level of radiation, we are injecting these cells to the bodies' muscles...that will help the bone marrow to recover after radiation.

4. Sharon Lewin:

   Coming 10 years after the successful report of the Berlin Patient, this new case confirms that bone marrow transplantation from a CCR5-negative donor can eliminate residual virus and stop any traces of virus from rebounding, two factors are likely at play : The new bone marrow is resistant to HIV, and also, the new bone marrow is actively eliminating any HIV-infected cells.

5. Bobby Elesky:

   There were times when the air quality was so bad that you would just drop to your knees and throw up, we made jokes at the time because we had no idea how serious it was.’ But Elesky says he found out when he returned home in 2005 and was told during a checkup that he had nearly 20 parasites in his body. More than a decade after his return, Elskey has suffered from myriad health issues, including plasmacytoma -- a condition where rare tumors attack soft tissue in the nasal cavity or bone marrow. He is grateful for the treatment he has received from the VA, but said the bureaucracy was difficult to deal with. Elesky said he was initially denied enrollment into the U.S. Department of Veteran Affairs’ Burn Pit Registry -- which was created to research and examine the potential threats from burn pit exposure.