Definitions for cancellous

cancellous can·cel·lous

Spelling: [kan-suh-luh s]
IPA: /ˈkæn sə ləs/

Cancellous is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 20 points.

You can make 505 anagrams from letters in cancellous (accellnosu).

Definitions for cancellous

adjective

  1. cancellate (def 1).

Origin of cancellous

1830-40; Latin cancell(us) lattice (see cancellus) + -ous

Examples for cancellous

Bone may be compact, or loose and spongy in character, when it is known as cancellous bone.

The soft substance filling the medullary cavities and cancellous extremities of the long bones.

The tympanic is not fused to the periotic and has a small bulla not filled with cancellous bone.

This would be of importance, since the clean puncture of cancellous bone was no doubt favoured by a high rate of velocity.

The spongy or cancellous osteoma is really an ossified chondroma, and is met with at the ends of the long bones (Fig. 52).

It would seem that the first change is one of congestion of the vessels of the bone's cancellous tissue.

These horn cores are formed internally of cancellous bone, and on them the true epidermal horns are borne.

To show how the cancellous structure of bone is able to support a great deal of weight.

Notching or grooving is naturally much more common in the cancellous portions of bones.

The cancellous structure of bone may be compared to the cellular tissue in soft parts.

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