Studies in the Medicine of Ancient India, Part I: Osteology, or the Bones of the Human Body c6.s4.17

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¹ It deserves notice that also modern Anatomy distinguishes between red and yellow marrow, the latter being found in the medullary cavity of the long bones, the red in the cancellous parts of those bones as well as in all other bones. The red marrow has its name from the blood-vessels in it, while the yellow has its name from the oil gradually developed in it. The yellow kind is what is popularly known as marrow, and which Suśruta distinguishes as *majjan*. See Gerrish, *Textbook of Anatomy* (2nd ed., 1903), pp. 53, 113.