HISTOLOGY
CONNECTIVE TISSUE
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also called cortical bone, dense bone in which the bony matrix is solidly filled with organic ground substance and inorganic salts, leaving only tiny spaces (lacunae) that contain the osteocytes, or bone cells. it makes up 80% of human skeleton.
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compact bone
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spongy bone
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Either A or B
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None of the above
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -compact bone, also called cortical bone, dense bone in which the bony matrix is solidly filled with organic ground substance and inorganic salts, leaving only tiny spaces (lacunae) that contain the osteocytes, or bone cells.
Detailed explanation-2: -Compact (cortical) bone is so named because of its dense, hard nature and because the dense bone is also found as a cortical ring surrounding a bone marrow cavity of the long bones.
Detailed explanation-3: -Cortical bone forms a solid osseous shell around the bone and consists of dense and parallel, concentric, lamellar units – the osteons.
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