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cancellated

ADJECTIVE
  1. having an open or latticed or porous structure
  2. having a latticelike structure pierced with holes or windows

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  • Referring to Fig. 249, it is seen that the large expansion of the bone is produced by the gradual transition of the hollow shaft of compact bone to cancellated bone, resulting in the production of a much larger volume. II. Osteology. 6c. 3. The Femur
  • [GALEODIA HODGII] Shell rather thick; elliptical, obtuse; whirls about five, inflated, and ornamented with numerous fine spiral lines, which are quite prominent at base; these, with the fine lines of growth, give the surface a cancellated appearance; collumellar lip marked with many irregular plicae; aperture nearly twice the length of the spire. Report of the North-Carolina Geological Survey. Agriculture of the Eastern Counties: Together with Descriptions of the Fossils of the Marl Beds
  • The primary fracture is usually longitudinal, passing through the facets for the talus and cuboid, and from this various secondary fissures radiate; the cancellated tissue is much crushed, so that the whole bone is flattened out. Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition.
  • At the cancellated ends of the long bones, particularly the upper end of the femur and humerus, and the lower end of the radius, it is not uncommon for one fragment to be _impacted_ or wedged into the substance of the other (Fig. 28). Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition.
  • As the disease progresses, there is softening and enlarging of the cancellated tissue towards the centre of the bone. Diseases of the Horse's Foot
  • Between these extremes are cases in which the capsular and synovial layer are extensively lacerated without involvement of the bones, and others in which the bones are implicated without serious damage being done to ligaments or synovial layer -- for example, by a bullet passing through and through the cancellated part of one of the constituent bones, or by a fissure extending into the articular surface. Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition.
  • The cerebral and spinal veins, the veins of the cancellated tissue of bone, the pulmonary veins, and the umbilical vein and its branches, are also destitute of valves. V. Angiology. Introduction
  • _Osteoma_ occurs in two forms: the exostosis, which may be composed of cancellated or of compact tissue, and the diffuse osteoma or leontiasis ossea (Volume I., p. 485). Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition.
  • _Osteoma_ occurs in two forms: the exostosis, which may be composed of cancellated or of compact tissue, and the diffuse osteoma or leontiasis ossea (Volume I., p. 485). Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition.
  • _Osteoma_ occurs in two forms: the exostosis, which may be composed of cancellated or of compact tissue, and the diffuse osteoma or leontiasis ossea (Volume I., p. 485). Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition.
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