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| Cube-shaped bone (such as carpal and small tarsal bones) |
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| Two plates of compact bone, separated by cancellous bone (ex: some bones of skull and ribs) |
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| Complex and irregularly-shaped bone (includes vertebrae and certain facial bones) |
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| small bone embedded in tendon; resembling a sesame seed (ex: patella, proximal and distal sesamoid bones) |
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| bone larger than wide, consisting of diaphysis (body) and two epiphyses (extremities) with their articular cartilage (ex: humerus, radius, femur, tibia, metacarpals and metatarsals) |
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| Two enlarged ends(proximal and distal extremities) of long bone |
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| Joining point of diaphysis and epiphysis in growing bone; part of the epiphyseal cartilage being replaced by bone |
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| fibrous covering around the bone that is not covered by articular cartilage; necessary for bone growth, repair, nutrition and attachment for ligaments and tendons |
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| Smooth layer of hyaline cartilage covering the epiphysis where one bone forms a joint with another bone |
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| space in the diaphysis containing the marrow |
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| fibrous and cellular tissue lining the medullary cavity of bone |
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| Outgrowth of bone; process |
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| Compact bone surrounding medullary cavity |
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| Epiphyseal cartilage/plate or physis or metaphyseal plate or growth plate/cartilage |
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| Plate of cartilage between diaphysis and epiphyses of immature long bones; where long bones are lengthened |
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| gross term for part of bone that looks solid |
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| gross term for bone with visible spaces in it; has trabecular structure of strands of bone separated by spaces; located at epiphyseal ends of marrow cavity |
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| Histological name for immature bone that's laid down but not organized by secondary remodeling; can be compact or cancellous bone |
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| Histological term for adult bone that has been remodeled; can be compact or cancellous bone |
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