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Using medical imaging as a guide, they recreated the delicate lattice known as trabeculae that gives bone its internal strength.

From Science Daily • Mar. 3, 2026

Spongy bone is made of tiny plates called trabeculae these plates serve as struts to give the spongy bone strength.

From Textbooks • Jun. 9, 2022

Spongy bone is made of tiny plates called trabeculae.

From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2015

The trabeculae and lobules, including the darkly staining cortex and the lighter staining medulla of each lobule, are clearly visible in the light micrograph of the thymus of a newborn.

From Textbooks • Jun. 19, 2013

The aporose corals, too, have a practically identical structure, their compactness being due to the union of the trabeculae throughout their entire lengths instead of at intervals, as in the Perforata.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 2 "Anjar" to "Apollo" by Various