Definition of Cancellous. Meaning of Cancellous. Synonyms of Cancellous

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Definition of Cancellous

Cancellous
Cancellous Can"cel*lous, a. [Cf. L. cancellosus covered with bars.] (Anat.) Having a spongy or porous structure; made up of cancelli; cancellated; as, the cancellous texture of parts of many bones.

Meaning of Cancellous from wikipedia

- salts. Bone tissue is mineralized tissue of two types, cortical bone and cancellous bone. Other types of tissue found in bones include bone marrow, endosteum...
- outer s**** of the long bone is compact bone, then a deeper layer of cancellous bone (spongy bone) which contains in the medullary cavity the bone marrow...
- endochondral ossification. It consists of a m**** of cancellous bone surrounded by a compact bone s****. The cancellous bone forms via two ossification centres, one...
- lamina dura is the less bright cancellous bone. Trabeculae are the tiny ****ules of bone crisscrossing the cancellous bone that make it look spongy. These...
- trabeculated structure. Cancellous bone is formed from groupings of trabeculated bone tissue. In cross section, trabeculae of a cancellous bone can look like...
- single or multiple layers. If deformity involves both cartilage and bone, cancellous bone from iliac crest is the best replacement. Autografts are preferred...
- layers of compact bone enclosing between them a variable quantity of cancellous bone, which is the location of red bone marrow. In an adult, most red...
- Diploë (/ˈdɪploʊi/ or DIP-lo-ee) is the spongy cancellous bone separating the inner and outer layers of the cortical bone of the skull. It is a subclass...
- Diagram of a typical long bone showing both cortical (compact) and cancellous (spongy) bone....
- forms; cortical and cancellous. The viscoelasticity of bone can therefore arise from the void collapse and deossification of cancellous bone and the natural...