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Definition of Cancellous
1. Adjective. Having an open or latticed or porous structure.
Category relationships: Anatomy, General Anatomy
Similar to: Cellular
Definition of Cancellous
1. a. Having a spongy or porous structure; made up of cancelli; cancellated; as, the cancellous texture of parts of many bones.
Definition of Cancellous
1. Adjective. (anatomy) (context: of bone) Having low density and strength but high surface area, of the kind that fills the inner cavity of long bones. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Cancellous
1. [adj]
Medical Definition of Cancellous
1. Denoting bone that has a lattice-like or spongy structure. Synonym: cancellated. (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cancellous
Literary usage of Cancellous
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Descriptive Catalogue of the Pathological Specimens Contained in the Museum by Royal College of Surgeons of England (1847)
"The Osseous Tissue chiefly cancellous and containing Medulla. 782. ... The tumour
is chiefly composed of bone, arranged in a close cancellous tissue, ..."
2. Microscopical Morphology of the Animal Body in Health and Disease by Carl Heitzmann (1882)
"the cancellous, epiphyseal, or spongy , and the compact or cortical bone-tissue.
fn) ... cancellous ..."
3. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"... sufficient size and strength to wield the skull thus heavily weighted, an
extraordinary development of air-cells takes place in the cancellous tissue of ..."
4. A handbook of therapeutics by Sydney Ringer (1876)
"Mercury remains a long time in the body, and, it is stated, may accumulate in
globules in the cancellous structures of bone. Mercury salts are to some ..."
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