Meanings of spongy bone in English

A few of the punctures had pale yellow spongy bone deep inside.

This rarefaction of the spongy bone is the earliest change seen with the X-rays.

There is just a bump of spongy bone between the lower arm and the hand.

Surface rendered models of 5th metatarsal showing medullary spongy bone infill and clear focalised cortical destruction.

Note its significantly larger size, irregular shape, and the fragmentation that exposes the underlying spongy bone.

As you might imagine, the spongy bone-withall its holes and slender walls-becomesweak and compromised more quickly than compact bone.

The weight of the body is enough to compress the back bones, causing a multitude of tiny fractures in the spongy bone.

The nose, which has no nerves for its sensation, has a cribriform, or spongy bone, to let odours pass on to the brain.

The soft, cancellous or spongy bone tissue showed unmistakable tooth marks-notbear but human, judging from the radius of the bite and the tooth profile.

Cells are to tissues what bubbles are to foams, and the best example of a foam structure in the body (besides saliva) is spongy bone.

Amid the silt and spongy bones of former criminals, Vortghast assured him that multieyed creatures sulked and waited.