Orthopaedics · Skeletal System · Medium
Cancellous
Meaning: Describing the spongy, honeycomb-like inner bone found at the ends of long bones and in vertebrae.
In practice: Cancellous bone graft was harvested from the iliac crest to fill the defect.
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