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FOR quantitative investigations of hæmopoiesis1, it is essential to know how much active bone marrow there is in the whole body. Estimates of the ‘organ size’ of the bone marrow have already been made in animals2,3, and similar determinations in the human fœtus are relevant to various aspects of fœtal hœmopoiesis which are being investigated in this department. There seems to have been no previous work on total marrow quantity in the human fœtus, although an investigation on three newborn infants has been reported4. The following is a summary of my observations.
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HUDSON, G. Organ Size of Human Fœtal Bone Marrow. Nature 205, 96–97 (1965). https://doi.org/10.1038/205096a0
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