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  • noun Plural form of trabecula.

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Examples

  • In the spaces between the trabeculae is the bone marrow.

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  • Classification as to Structure: a. Spongy - made up of bony processes called trabeculae giving it a porous appearance; found in the epiphysis and metaphysic of long bones, diploe of flat bones and in the medullary cavities b.

    Recently Uploaded Slideshows 2009

  • This image of a human vertebra shows the internal microstructure of bone, called the trabeculae.

    Scanning Our Skeletons: Bone Images Show Wear and Tear 2008

  • This image of a human vertebra shows the internal microstructure of bone, called the trabeculae.

    Scanning Our Skeletons: Bone Images Show Wear and Tear By Thomas Goetz 2008

  • Basal hornbills, which probably include the ground hornbills (read on), have a small casque that is often little more than a mid-line dorsal ridge on the bill, but in more derived forms it is a large, mostly hollow structures supported internally by strut-like trabeculae (Kemp 1995): for images of sectioned casques go here.

    Bucorvids: post-Cretaceous maniraptorans on the savannah Darren Naish 2006

  • Majumdar's method is to churn through the data to identify patterns in how the trabeculae — the material inside bone — changes in people who have diseases like osteoporosis and arthritis.

    Scanning Our Skeletons: Bone Images Show Wear and Tear By Thomas Goetz 2008

  • Majumdar's method is to churn through the data to identify patterns in how the trabeculae — the material inside bone — changes in people who have diseases like osteoporosis and arthritis.

    Scanning Our Skeletons: Bone Images Show Wear and Tear 2008

  • Basal hornbills, which probably include the ground hornbills (read on), have a small casque that is often little more than a mid-line dorsal ridge on the bill, but in more derived forms it is a large, mostly hollow structures supported internally by strut-like trabeculae (Kemp 1995): for images of sectioned casques go here.

    Archive 2006-08-01 Darren Naish 2006

  • A few liver trabeculae are to be seen on either side of the portal, but they show no lumena, and may be traced through only a few sections.

    Development of the Digestive Canal of the American Alligator C. M. [Illustrator] Reese

  • This cavity is a part of the system of hollow liver trabeculae seen as a group of irregular masses of cells ventrad to the enteron at the opening of the anterior intestinal portal.

    Development of the Digestive Canal of the American Alligator C. M. [Illustrator] Reese

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