The outer layers of solid, hard bone that covers spongy bone; consists of parallel osteons containing mineral deposits and interstitial lamellae. [ MP:0003797 http://www.informatics.jax.org/accession/hdene https://www.worldcat.org/search?q=bn%3A0-683-40008-8 ]
Synonyms: substantia compacta (pars ossea) compact bone substantia compacta cortical bone tissue bony cortex compact bone tissue cortical bone substantia corticalis cortical region of bone
Term information
- SCTID:361728003
- Wikipedia:Compact_bone
- FMA:24018
- NCIT:C52714
- EMAPA:35250
- MA:0001461
- galen:CorticalBone
uberon_slim, pheno_slim