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  2. Trabecula - Wikipedia

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    Inside of a bone showing the trabecular structure A typical carcinoid tumor of the lung showing a trabecular pattern of elongated groups of cells.. A trabecula (pl.: trabeculae, from Latin for 'small beam') is a small, often microscopic, tissue element in the form of a small beam, strut or rod that supports or anchors a framework of parts within a body or organ.

  3. Trabecular cartilage - Wikipedia

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    Trabecular cartilages (trabeculae cranii, sometimes simply trabeculae, prechordal cartilages) are paired, rod-shaped cartilages, which develop in the head of the vertebrate embryo. They are the primordia of the anterior part of the cranial base , and are derived from the cranial neural crest cells .

  4. Osteocyte - Wikipedia

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    When osteocytes were experimentally destroyed, the bones showed a significant increase in bone resorption, decreased bone formation, trabecular bone loss, and loss of response to unloading. [ 6 ] Osteocytes are mechanosensor cells that control the activity of osteoblasts and osteoclasts [ 16 ] within a basic multicellular unit (BMU), a ...

  5. Bone - Wikipedia

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    Cancellous bone or spongy bone, [12] [11] also known as trabecular bone, is the internal tissue of the skeletal bone and is an open cell porous network that follows the material properties of biofoams. [13] [14] Cancellous bone has a higher surface-area-to-volume ratio than cortical bone and it is less dense. This makes it weaker and more flexible.

  6. Haversian canal - Wikipedia

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    Human bones are densely vascularized as in many other mammals. Even though some authors tried to identify a correlation between endothermy and secondary Haversian reconstruction, this feature is absent in many living mammals (e.g. monotremes, Talpa, flying foxes, Herpestes, Dasypus) and birds (Aratinga, Morococcyx, Nyctidromus, Momotus, Chloroceryle) while others possess only scattered ...

  7. Cartilage - Wikipedia

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    In embryogenesis, the skeletal system is derived from the mesoderm germ layer. Chondrification (also known as chondrogenesis) is the process by which cartilage is formed from condensed mesenchyme tissue, which differentiates into chondroblasts and begins secreting the molecules (aggrecan and collagen type II) that form the extracellular matrix.

  8. Toco toucan beak - Wikipedia

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    For the internal foam part of the toucan beak, which is composed of trabeculae, the Young's Modulus was found to be 12.7 GPa, which is higher than that of the outer shell. [3] This difference is due to the calcium content being higher in the foam than that in the keratin shell. [3] The relative density of the foam was found to be 0.09.

  9. Diploë - Wikipedia

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    It is a subclass of trabecular bone. [2] In the cranial bones, the layers of compact cortical tissue are familiarly known as the tables of the skull; the outer one is thick and tough; the inner is thin, dense, and brittle, and hence is termed the vitreous table. The intervening cancellous tissue is called the diploë.