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What are perforating canals?
Canals in the bone in which blood vessels pass. Blood vessels from outside the bone penetrate the compact bone to the spongy bone through the PERFORATING CANALS.
What type of bone has lacunae in concentric circles around central canals and is found on the wall of the middle prtion of the long bone?
Compact bone
Which one is found in a compact bone but not in a spongy bone?
Trabeculae are found in spongy or cancellous bone.
What makes compact bone hard?
Osteonic canals contain blood vessels that connect to the long axis of the bone. The blood vessels that are connected perforate the canals of the bone and provide vessels to the surface of the bone which makes the bone hard.
Blood vessles that supply nourishment to the bone cells in compact bones are located in what?
Osteonic Canals
Bone Cells are arranged in concentric circles around the osteonic harversian canals T or F?
True.
Does spongy bone genrally have central canals?
No, the canals are present in the compact bone (surrounds the spongy bone) and are called Haversian canals.
What are perforating canals?
Canals in the bone in which blood vessels pass. Blood vessels from outside the bone penetrate the compact bone to the spongy bone through the PERFORATING CANALS.
What part of the bone does nerves and blood vessels are found?
In compact (dense) bone, the nerves and blood vessels run through conduits known as the Haversian Canals. These are connected to the bone cells by canaliculi channels.
What type of bone has lacunae in concentric circles around central canals and is found on the wall of the middle prtion of the long bone?
Compact bone
What are the roles of the haversian canals in compact bone?
The haversian canals are used to transport oxygen to the bone cells. It also contains the nerves for the bones.
What has small canals with blood vessels running through?
it is either the compact bone or the outer membrane...andd the answer is COMPACT BONE! you are very welcome! :)
Which one is found in a compact bone but not in a spongy bone?
Trabeculae are found in spongy or cancellous bone.
Haversian canals are located?
Haversian canals branch into the compact bone, they caring blood vesels which nourish the osteocytes.
What is the network of tubes that runs through the compact bone called?
The Haversian canals
What makes compact bone hard?
Osteonic canals contain blood vessels that connect to the long axis of the bone. The blood vessels that are connected perforate the canals of the bone and provide vessels to the surface of the bone which makes the bone hard.
Small channels in compact bone that contain blood vessels are called?
Haversian canals
