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What is an example of a spongy bone?

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makes bones lightweight by it's holes and able your bones to move much easier because it makes bones lightweight by it's holes so it's job is to make your bones lightweight and to make your bones move easier

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Cancellous Bone

and sometimes also known as trabecular bone

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Spongy bone is found at the expanded heads of long bones and fills most irregular bones

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Mostly at the ends of long bones, in the epiphyseal ends.

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What bone is full of holes?

Spongy Bone.


What is the spongy stuff called in a joint?

the inside part of most bones. an example in the cranium (skull), we have spongy bone in the middle and compact bone on top and bottom.


What does spongy bone do and where is is found?

Spongy bone is found in the epiphysis part of bone


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.


Is the spongy bone strong?

The spongy bone is strong but lightweight.


What is a spongy bone called?

A spongy bone is also called a cancellous bone or trabecular bone..


How are marrow and spongy bone alike?

marrow bone is liquidy an spongy bone is soft


Is compact bone replaced faster then spongy bone?

No, spongy bone regenerates faster.


Is the spongy bone living or non living?

Spongy bone is living.


What Type of bone contains plate separated by irregular spaces?

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What are the locations of spongy bone and compact bone kept?

The compact bone is the outer part of the bone, and on the inside is the spongy bone. The spongy bone has small spaces which are filled with red bone marrow and some fat.


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