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No cancellous bone is also known as spongy bone
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Another name for spongy bone is this?
Cancellous/trabecular bone
What is the expanded region of a long bone consisting of spongy bone called?
Long bones mostly consist of compact bone, but the region that does consist of spongy bone is called the epiphysis. There is a proximal epiphysis and a distal epiphysis. The region consisting of the compact bone is diaphysis.
What is another name for the trabecular bone?
The trabecular bone is also called a spongy bone. It contains bone marrow and compared to regular bone, it is a lot weaker and a lot softer. Osteoporosis affects the trabecular bones more than regular bones.
What are the functions of the compact bone and spongy bone?
Compact bone makes the bones hard enough so that they can provide support to the body and protect organs. It makes up the hard exterior of skeletal bones. Spongy bone (cancellous bone) is in shorter, flatter bones, and at the ends of long bones. It has more blood vessels and usually contains bone marrow, where red blood cells are produced.
Is the compact bone spongy?
Actually the compact bone isn't spongy at all, the compact bone is a tough layer making the bone neither too rigid or too brittle. So the compact bone is not spongy. Spongy bone, like its name is spongy.
What is the name of the hollow cylinder part of the long bone?
compact bone
What is the tigh bone called?
Another name for the tigh bone is called the femur
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) ----
What is the name of the sight where the spongy bone is located in the adult?
Spongy bone, also known as cancellous bone, is less dense than compact bone and is composed of a honeycomb-like network of bones called trabeculae. Spongy bone actually looks like a sponge. It is found at the expanded heads of long bones, such as bones of the arms, legs, fingers and toes and also in the ribs. Spongy bone also fills most irregular bones, such as bones of the skull, vertebrae and hips. Blood vessels run throughout the substance and marrow fills the spaces between the tissues. Spongy bones are designed to bear stress caused by bending or stretching.
What is the name of the cavity that contains the bone cells themselves?
Bone cells, osteocytes, reside in cavities within compact bone called lacunae.
What kind of bone forms the protective covering of the brain?
Calveria is a generic name for the bones covering the brain. The type of bone is compact bone.
What is another name for bone formation?
Another name for bone formation is ossification.
