Sentence examples for shell of bone from inspiring English sources

The commonest cause for progressive hearing loss in early and middle adult life is a disease of the hard shell of bone that surrounds the labyrinth of the inner ear.

They solved for the electric potential in a brain from electrodes placed directly on a scalp, modeling the brain, skull, and scalp as different layers of monodomain tissues, i.e. a sphere encased in a thin shell of bone which was itself encased in a thin shell of skin.

Examination of sections of the SHAM-operated control group revealed that the proximal metaphysis of tibia was formed of an outer shell of compact bone (cortical bone) and inner trabeculae of cancellous bone.

B one morphogenetic substratum: The structure of the demineralized matrix is a substratum for differentiation of mesenchymal cells, not only into bone as a tissue, but also bone as an organ consisting of a shell of lamellar bone with a marrow cavity filled with hematopoietic bone marrow.

Cancellous bone is usually surrounded by a shell of compact bone, which provides greater strength and rigidity.

In a typical adult long bone, one can distinguish grossly a cylindrical shaft or diaphysis of compact bone (with a central marrow cavity) and, at the ends of the shaft, the epiphyses, each consisting of spongy bone covered by a thin peripheral shell of compact bone.

However, their incidence may be underestimated as it has been shown that a percentage of previously identified dense calcification on conventional radiography and CT may actually possess an outer shell of cortical bone surrounding an inner core of (fatty) bone marrow using modern high-resolution CT and MR imaging [28, 31, 32].

This suggests that the measurements from the in-vivo study were from the bone and not just from a shell of damaged bone around the drill canal.

An outer shell of cortical bone was defined, and the inner remaining material was specified as cancellous bone.

(a) Lateral knee radiograph and (b) sagittal fat-suppressed T2-weighted MR image 3 days after knee x-ray show small bony fragment fracture from the lower pole (arrow), extending anteriorly, with detachment of a thin shell of cortical bone (arrowheads), consistent with a sleeve fracture.

The shell of compact bone was covered by periosteum and lined by endosteum.