The lattice‐like, reticular, or spongy or part of bone; the tissue found in the medulla of the bone; it has a variable trabecular pattern and is made of interstitial tissue that may be hematopoietic. Also used to describe a graft derived from cancellous bone, which is a spongy type of bone containing a trabecular structure with red bone marrow and most of the bone vasculature.
Inner, spongy portion of bone tissue.
A light spongy bone tissue which forms the inner core of a bone and also the ends of long bones.
Porous bone tissue that looks like a sponge with many spaces; also known as spongy bone.
A spongy bone in which the matrix forms connecting bars and plates, partially enclosing many intercommunicating spaces filled with bone marrow.