See Also: Bone marrow transplant(health)
bone marrow transplant(medicine)
Bone marrow transplant (BMT)(health)
allogeneic bone marrow transplant(medicine)
syngeneic bone marrow transplant(medicine)
autologous bone marrow transplant(medicine)
Yarra-banker(dictionary)
Bone marrow(medicine)
Bone marrow(health)
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Bone marrow transplant (BMT) (health) and Yarra-banker (iou)


Bone marrow transplant (BMT) (health)


A procedure to replace a patient's diseased or treatment-damaged bone marrow with healthy marrow. The new marrow can be marrow that has been previously removed from the patient and stored until needed (autologous transplant); or marrow that is donated either from a genetically matched relative or unrelated donor (allogeneic transplant) or from the patient's genetically identical twin (syngeneic transplant).





Yarra-banker (iou)



Yarra-banker noun. Austral. colloq. L19.
[from Yarra the river on which Melbourne stands + BANK noun1 + -ER1.]
A vagrant. Also, a soapbox orator.