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What does cancellated mean?

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Adjective
  1. crossbarred; marked with cross lines
  2. (anatomy) open or spongy, like certain porous bones
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They have a large medullary cavity, with dense but thin walls, with a fine 58 cancellated structure at their articular ends.
The whole of the body whorl and commencement of the spire is cancellated.
The cancellated tissue of the body of the first lumbar vertebra was very much comminuted, and the fragments somewhat displaced.
Borderline cases include the type species, Kermia benhami, which is atypical in its protoconch possessing arcuate axial riblets, with only their bases diagonally cancellated.
The marrow and cancellated tissue of the long bones may contain hemorrhages and soft gelatinous material or coagulated fibrin.
The Basis generally has a thick, underlying, cancellated layer.

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