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What is the function of the medullary cavity?
The medullary cavity is the central cavity of bone shafts. This is where red and yellow bone marrow are stored. The medullary cavity is also involved in the formation of red and white blood cells.
What is Contains fat in adult bone?
medullary cavity
The location of fat in adult bones are?
Fat, also called adipose tissue when it is stored in the body, can be found in the medullary cavity of long bones as yellow bone marrow.
Where is fat stored with in the bone?
A tissue called adipose tissue stores fat. It can be found in many places: under the skin, as padding in some joints, behind the eye, as an "apron" (omentum) over the intestines.
Medullary cavity function?
The medullary cavity contains yellow bone marrow.
What membrane lines lines the medullary cavity?
The endosteum lines the medullary cavity.
Does bone tissue function as a fat storage area?
The yellow marrow in the medullary cavity in long bones functions as a fat storage area.
What is the medullary cavity lined with?
Endosteum
Does bone have a medullary cavity?
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How does the marrow in the medullary cavity compare to the marrow in the spongy bone?
The bone marrow in the medullary cavity contains only yellow bone marrow, for fat storage. The spongy bone contains both red bone marrow (blood production) and yellow bone marrow.
What name is given to the cavity that runs through the diaphysis?
Medullary cavity
What cavities are enclosed in bone?
The medullary cavity is the innermost part, the central cavity of the bone shaft where red and yellow bone marrow is stored. An antrum is a cavity or chamber especially in the bone of the sinuses of the upper jaw bones, opening into the nasal cavity.
