1 Bat. or batt.. 2  Less commonly also known as a batterboard, thin slab of wood, plaster, or plastic used to support pottery forms during throwing, attached to the head of the potter's wheel by clay body or bat pins.
An osteocyte, a star-shaped type of bone cell, is the most commonly found cell in mature bone tissue, and can live as long as the organism itself.[1] The adult human body has about 42 billion osteocytes.[2] Osteocytes have an average half life of 25 years, they do not divide, and they are derived from osteoprogenitors, some of which differentiate ...
Osteoclasts. Osteoclasts are large bone cells formed in the marrow of the bone. Similar in structure to white blood cells, they are responsible for breaking down bone tissue, which is required for bone growth and healing.ost bone cells are unable to divide and cannot reproduce. Osteogenic cells are bone cells capable of creating new osteoblasts and osteoclasts. They are located in the periosteum, which is the tissue surrounding the bone, and the bone marrow.