A system of human anatomy, general and special . daries to those canals of about5}o of an inch in thickness. pies with other bones; they have an exterior dense, and an interiormore or less cellular. The bones of this class are, the temporal, sphe-noid, ethmoid, superior maxillary, inferior maxillary, palate, inferiorturbinated, hyoid, vertebras, sacrum, coccyx, carpal and tarsal bones,and sesamoid bones, including the patella?. Structure of Bone.—Bone is a dense, compact,and homogeneous substance (basis substance) filledwith minute cells (corpuscles of Purkinje), whichare scattered numerously


A system of human anatomy, general and special . daries to those canals of about5}o of an inch in thickness. pies with other bones; they have an exterior dense, and an interiormore or less cellular. The bones of this class are, the temporal, sphe-noid, ethmoid, superior maxillary, inferior maxillary, palate, inferiorturbinated, hyoid, vertebras, sacrum, coccyx, carpal and tarsal bones,and sesamoid bones, including the patella?. Structure of Bone.—Bone is a dense, compact,and homogeneous substance (basis substance) filledwith minute cells (corpuscles of Purkinje), whichare scattered numerously through its basis substance of bone is subfibrous and ob-scurely lamellated, the lamella? being concentric inlong and parallel in flat bones; it is traversed in alldirections, but especially in the longitudinal axis,by branching and inosculating canals (Haversiancanals) which give passage to vessels and nerves,and in certain situations the lamellae separate fromeach other, and leave between them areolar spaces(cancelli) of vario


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