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Webster 1913 Edition

Adj.

[Cf. L.

cancellosus

covered with bars.]

(Anat.)

Having a spongy or porous structure; made up of cancelli; cancellated;

as, the

cancellous

texture of parts of many bones

cancellous ‎(not comparable)

(anatomy, of bone) Having low density and strength but high surface area, of the kind that fills the inner cavity of long bones.

low-density (of bone)