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Long bone |
-has an irregular epiphysis at each end -composed mainly of spongy (cancellous) bone |
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Shaft or Diaphysis |
-composed mainly of compact bone |
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Osteoblasts |
-the cells that form compact bone -when the become fixed in the dense bone matrix, they stop dividing but continue to maintain bone tissue as OSTEOCYTES!! |