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| the needlelike threads of spongy bone that surrounds a network of spaces |
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| he outerlayer of bone is hard and dense |
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| the porous bone in the end of the long bone. Contains many spaces that may be filled with marrow. |
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| Haversian systems or osteons |
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| the matrix of compact or dense bone |
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| circular and tubelike composed of calcified matrix arranged in multiple layers resembling the rings of an onion |
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| surrrounded by the circular rings of lamellae. Contains a blood vessel |
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| little spaces between the hard layers of lamellae where osteocytes are located |
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tiny passageways or canals that connect the lucanae with each other and with the central canal in each Haversian system.
Nutrients pass from the blood vessel in the Haversian canal throught the canaluculi to the osteocytes. |
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| Numerous blood vessels from the outer periosteum enter the bone and eventually pass throught the Haversian canals. |
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| Cartilage consistes more intercellular substance than of cell. Innumerable collagenous fibers reinforce the atrix of both bone and cartilage. In cartilage, the fibers are embedded in a firm get instead of in a calcified cement substance as in bone. |
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