cancellate
adjective
of spongy or porous structure, as bone.
cancellated
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a variation of
cancellate.
Example Sentences
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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 Harry Caulton Reeks
There is less risk of exfoliation, the cancellated texture of the epiphysis not being liable to it.
From A Manual of the Operations of Surgery For the Use of Senior Students, House Surgeons, and Junior Practitioners by Joseph Bell
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 Harry Caulton Reeks
The comparative anatomist was guided in coming to this conclusion by a certain cancellated structure possessed by the bony fragments, a characteristic of the bones of birds.
From The Catholic World; Volume I, Issues 1-6 A Monthly Eclectic Magazine by E. Rameur
The Cancellariadæ, in which the shells are cancellated or cross-barred by a double series of lines running, one set with the whorls, and the other across them.
From Sea-Weeds, Shells and Fossils by Peter Gray
