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Area of bone that is made up of osteons?
compact bone
What is the functional unit of compact bone?
The basic unit of a compact bone is an osteon. This is also known as the Haversian canal and it contains blood vessels that transport blood to the bone.
What connects the central canals of osteons?
The cement line is what connects the central canals. They are made up of different layers of compact bone tissue.
What are tiny units that make up bone?
The tiny units that make up bone are called osteons.
What kind of tissue is inside the bone?
The part of bone you are asking about is called compact bone, or cortical bone.
What type of bone makes up the shaft of a long bone?
bone marrow is in the center of the bone shaft
How do the structural difference in compact bones and spongy bones relate to the locations and functions of these two type of bones?
---- Spongy bone is also called the cancellous bone which, as the name suggests, is very soft and it protects the bone/fatty marrow. The compact bone, on the other hand serves as a protector of everything within it. by Shamari K Brown Jamaica College 5 Arts (2007-2008) ----
Dense tissue that makes up the walls of a bone?
Compact bone.
What is the function of a compact bone?
up and down
What are the layers that make up your bones?
What are two kinds of bone tissue?
Two types of bone tissue are compact bone and spongy bone. Compact bone functions as the basic supporting tissue of the body. Spongy bone's function , meanwhile, is to make up most of the short, flat, and irregular bones in your body. It also makes up the ends of long bones.
What type of bone tissue makes up the dense hard outer layer of bone?
Cortical Bone
