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| These fibers can stretch and recoil back into their original form after being stretched: |
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| Embryonic skeleton is made up of what cartilage? |
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| A sheath of dense irregular connective tissue that surrounds cartilage? |
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| These bone cells reside in Lacunae: |
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| Small canals running through bone matrix connecting lacunae to one another: |
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| The name for the layer of spongy bone that fills the space between compact bone layers in short, irregular, and flat bones: |
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| The individual concentric rings of bone that make up osteons: |
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| Why can bones be hollow yet handle the stresses we place on them? |
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| Forces cancel out at the center |
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