The outer layers of solid, hard bone that covers spongy bone; consists of parallel osteons containing mineral deposits and interstitial lamellae. [ MP:0003797 https://www.worldcat.org/search?q=bn%3A0-683-40008-8 http://www.informatics.jax.org/accession/hdene ]

Synonyms: substantia compacta (pars ossea) compact bone substantia compacta cortical bone tissue bony cortex compact bone tissue cortical bone cortical region of bone substantia corticalis

This is just here as a test because I lose it

Term information

database cross reference
Subsets

uberon_slim, pheno_slim

latin term
substantia corticalis [ FMA:TA FMA:24018 ]

latin term
substantia compacta [ FMA:TA FMA:24018 ]

comment

MP distinguishes compact/cortical bone. in other AOs they are syns

depiction

https://cdn.humanatlas.io/digital-objects/ref-organ/pelvis-female/v1.3/assets/3d-vh-f-pelvis.glb

https://cdn.humanatlas.io/digital-objects/ref-organ/pelvis-male/v1.3/assets/3d-vh-m-pelvis.glb

id

UBERON:0001439

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