Folate

(FOE-late) A B-vitamin that is found in fresh or lightly cooked green vegetables. It helps the bone marrow bone marrow: The soft, spongy tissue inside most bones. Blood cells are formed in the bone marrow. make normal blood cells. Most people get enough folate in their diet. Doctors may have people with paroxysmal nocturnal hemaglobinuria (PNH) take a man-made form of folate called folic acid folic acid: See folate. .