Bone marrow transplant

Definition

A bone marrow transplant is a medical procedure performed to replace damaged or destroyed bone marrow with healthy bone marrow stem cells. The process involves infusing these healthy cells into the patient's bloodstream, where they migrate to the bone marrow and begin producing new blood cells.

Related terms

Hematopoiesis: The process by which all of the body's blood cells are produced in the bone marrow, including white blood cells, red blood cells, and platelets.

Stem Cell: Undifferentiated cells capable of giving rise to indefinitely more cells of the same type, and from which certain other kinds of cell arise by differentiation.

Leukemia: A type of cancer that affects the blood and bone marrow, characterized by the overproduction of abnormal white blood cells