The 2010 MLB trade deadline is fast approaching, and though some big deals have already been swung, rumors of several other deals remain as deadline enthusiasm nears a fever pitch. Here, SB Nation's Jeff Sullivan answers some trade deadline FAQ to get the less familiar reader up to speed on just what's going on.
After spongy bone is formed in the diaphysis, osteoclasts break down the newly formed bone to open up the medullary cavity. The cartilage in the epiphyses continues to grow so the developing bone increases in length. Later, usually after birth, secondary ossification centers form in the epiphyses.
The soft substance filling the medullary cavities and cancellous extremities of the long bones. Surgery, with Special Reference to Podiatry Maximilian Stern Bone may be compact, or loose and spongy in character, when it is known as cancellous bone. These horn cores are formed internally of cancellous bone, and on them the true epidermal horns are borne. The tympanic is not fused to the periotic and has a small bulla not filled with cancellous bone. The Vertebrate Skeleton Sidney H. Reynolds The spongy or cancellous osteoma is really an ossified chondroma, and is met with at the ends of the long bones (Fig. 52).