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Cancellous tissue has spaces inside it, like a honeycomb. Compact tissue is solid and dense with no visible spaces.

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Which type of bone tissue significantly degenerates first in osteoporosis?

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Is the type of bone tissue that contains marrow?

Cancellous.


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What type of bone tissue that contains bone marrow?

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