| They have a large medullary cavity, with dense but thin walls, with a fine 58 cancellated structure at their articular ends. |
| The Basis generally has a thick, underlying, cancellated layer. |
| The marrow and cancellated tissue of the long bones may contain hemorrhages and soft gelatinous material or coagulated fibrin. |
| The whole of the body whorl and commencement of the spire is cancellated. |
| Borderline cases include the type species, Kermia benhami, which is atypical in its protoconch possessing arcuate axial riblets, with only their bases diagonally cancellated. |
| As the disease progresses, there is softening and enlarging of the cancellated tissue towards the centre of the bone. |
