Tissue
compact bone
com·pact bone
Subclass of:
Bone and Bones
Definitions related to compact bone:
  • Hard, tightly-packed tissue that forms the outer shell of bones. Also called cortical bone or lamellar bone.
    Harvard Dictionary of Health Terms
    Harvard Medical Publishing, 2011
  • Tissue component of lamellar bone, each instance of which is dense and hard.
    Foundational Model of Anatomy
    University of Washington, 2017
  • (cortical bone) A type of osseous tissue which makes up the outer layer of bone. It is dense, rigid, strong, and forms concentric lamellar OSTEONS.
    NLM Medical Subject Headings
    U.S. National Library of Medicine, 2021
  • (cortical bone) The dense or compact outer layer of tissue that covers the bone.
    NCI Thesaurus
    U.S. National Cancer Institute, 2021
  • Compact bone, dense bone in which the bony matrix is solidly filled with organic ground substance and inorganic salts, leaving only tiny spaces (lacunae) that contain the osteocytes, or bone cells. Compact bone makes up 80 percent of the human skeleton; the remainder is cancellous bone, which has a...
    Encyclopedia Britannica
    Encyclopedia Britannica, Inc., 2020
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