cancellated
- a variation of cancellate.
Example Sentences
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The navicular bone consists normally of compact and cancellated tissue arranged in certain proportions, the compact tissue without, and the cancellated within.
From Diseases of the Horse's Foot by Reeks, Harry Caulton
Whatever their use, they existed merely as communications between the cells of the middle cancellated layer and the surface.
From The Cruise of the Betsey or, A Summer Ramble Among the Fossiliferous Deposits of the Hebrides. With Rambles of a Geologist or, Ten Thousand Miles Over the Fossiliferous Deposits of Scotland by Symonds, W. S. (William Samuel)
As the disease progresses, there is softening and enlarging of the cancellated tissue towards the centre of the bone.
From Diseases of the Horse's Foot by Reeks, Harry Caulton
If the disease of the joint has affected the lower end of the bone, slice after slice may be removed, till a healthy surface of cancellated texture is obtained.
From A Manual of the Operations of Surgery For the Use of Senior Students, House Surgeons, and Junior Practitioners by Bell, Joseph
A. Cells, either floating, as in the blood, or fixed, like those in the cancellated structure of bone, already referred to.
From Medical Essays, 1842-1882 by Holmes, Oliver Wendell
