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---- 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.

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Compact bones consist of osteons with little space between them compact bones lie on spongy bones and they make up most of the diaphysis. Spongy bones make up most of the structure of short, flat and irregular bones.

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compact is stronger, and doesn't give much stretch or shock absorbency, where as spongey does.

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Spongy bone is a lot more porous and has places that has a ton of nerves in it

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