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What is the difference between the red bone marrow and the yellow bone marrow?
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∙ 14y ago
Red bone marrow is found in places with flatter bones, such as hip bones, along the end in a sponge-like material at the ends of bones. Yellow bone marrow, on the other hand, is found in the center interior portion of longer bones.
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∙ 14y agored is found mainly in flat bones such as the hip. the cancellous, or "spongy" material at the epiphyseal ends of the long bones such as the femur. yellow if found in hollow of the interior middle portion of long bones.
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What is the difference between red marrow and yellow marrow?
the principal site of hemopoises is the red bone marrow of the sternum. whereas yellow bone marrow in certain long bones of an adult produces rbcs wbcs and platelets.
What bone marrow is mainly fat?
Fat is stored in all bones that consist of yellow bone marrow.
What are the two kind of bone marrow?
There is yellow bone marrow and red bone marrow.
What would you find in the marrow cavity of the diaphysis of an adult humerus?
yellow bone marrow.
Is red or yellow bone marrow tissue is hemopoietic?
Red bone marrow. Yellow bone marrow acts as a storage for triglycerides and fat.
Is yellow bone marrow found in the compact bone?
No. Yellow bone marrow is found in the hollow cavity inside the bone.
How does the marrow in the medullary cavity compare to the marrow in the spongy bone?
The bone marrow in the medullary cavity contains only yellow bone marrow, for fat storage. The spongy bone contains both red bone marrow (blood production) and yellow bone marrow.
What does yellow marrow store?
Yellow bone marrow mostly stores and is made up of fat cells. The yellow bone marrow makes up about half of the adult human bodies bone marrow.
What are the two kinds of marrow in bones?
There is yellow bone marrow and red bone marrow.
What is a yellow marrow?
Yellow marrow is bone marrow that is involved in fat storage as opposed to red marrow which is involved in the production of red blood cells.
Is all bone marrow red?
No, there is also yellow bone marrow
What do red bone marrow and yellow bone marrow have in common?
the red bone marrow produces red and white cells and platelets, while they are found in more children than in adults. The yellow bone marrow consist of fats.
