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Cancellous

adjective
1.
Having an open or latticed or porous structure.  Synonyms: cancellate, cancellated.





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... beef shin bone, and saw it lengthwise in halves, we see two distinct structures. There is a hard and compact tissue, like ivory, forming the outside shell, and a spongy tissue inside having the appearance of a beautiful lattice work. Hence this is called cancellous tissue, and the gradual transition from one ...
— A Practical Physiology • Albert F. Blaisdell


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