• A type of osseous tissue which makes up the inner part of bone. It has a spongy, honeycomb-like structure with struts or trabecula and contains the BONE MARROW. It has higher rate of BONE REMODELING turnover than CORTICAL BONE.
  NLM Medical Subject Headings
  U.S. National Library of Medicine, 2021
• One of two types of tissue that form bone; this type is commonly found at the center of long bones and makes up a large part of the hip and spine. Also known as trabecular bone.
  Harvard Dictionary of Health Terms
  Harvard Medical Publishing, 2011
• (trabecular bone) Tissue component of lamellar bone, each instance of which is made up of some thin intersecting lamellae, usually internal to some compact bone.
  Foundational Model of Anatomy
  University of Washington, 2017
• (substantia spongiosa) Bone in which the trabeculae form a three-dimensional latticework with the interstices filled with embryonal connective tissue or bone marrow.
  CRISP Thesaurus
  National Institutes of Health, 2006
• Cancellous bone, light, porous bone enclosing numerous large spaces that give a honeycombed or spongy appearance. The bone matrix, or framework, is organized into a three-dimensional latticework of bony processes, called trabeculae, arranged along lines of stress. The spaces between are often...
  Encyclopedia Britannica
  Encyclopedia Britannica, Inc., 2020