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What does a long bone have?
Long bones contain yellow marrow in addition to red marrow. Yellow marrow is stored fat, or adipose tissue.
How does the marrow in the medullary cavity compare to the marrow in the spongy bone?
The marrow in the medullary cavity is primarily composed of yellow marrow, which stores fat, while the marrow in the spongy bone is red marrow where blood cells are produced. Yellow marrow is found in long bones, whereas spongy bones contain red marrow in their trabeculae.
What is found in long hollow spaces of long bones?
There are five different types of bone in a human body. If you are talking about long bones, such as your femur or tibia (aka the long bones in your arms and legs), then in the middle of them are bone marrow. Yellow marrow for adults and red marrow for children.
Diaphysis contains what type of marrow?
The diaphysis of a long bone contains yellow bone marrow, which primarily consists of adipose (fat) cells.
What is the central cavity of a long bone?
maxillary canal
What is a yellow marrow?
Yellow marrow is the type of bone marrow found in the central cavities of long bones of adults. It is mainly composed of fat cells and serves as a fatty reserve for energy storage. Yellow marrow can convert to red marrow in certain situations, such as during periods of increased blood cell production.
Bone marrow can be either red or?
yellow. Yellow bone marrow is composed mainly of fat cells and is found in the central cavity of long bones, while red bone marrow is responsible for producing blood cells and is found in flat bones and the ends of long bones.
What type of bone marrow is mainly fat tissue?
The type of marrow that is made up primarily of fat cells is the yellow bone marrow. The red bone marrow is made up of myeloids.
What do you call the soft in the middle bones?
The Bone Marrow
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.
Is blood made in yellow bone marrow?
Erythrocytes are generally produced in red marrow in mammals. Yellow marrow is adipose (fat) tissue.
How do red and yellow bone marrow differ in composition and function?
Red Bone Marrow produces both red and white bloode cell's. Yellow marrow, which is found in the central cavity of long bones, stores fat.Cross Section of a long bone below:In children red marrow dills the center of long bones this red marrow is replaced with yellow marrow as children become adults.
