The Long Bones are those that are longer than they are wide. They are one of five types of bones: long, short, flat, irregular and sesamoid. Long bones, especially the femur and tibia, are subjected to most of the load during daily activities and they are crucial for skeletal mobility. They grow primarily by elongation of the diaphysis, with an ep...
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Gross structure of a long bone (human femur) Credit: Prentice-Hall: Martini/Timmons 1997 Sectional diagram of a long bone A bone that is significantly longer than it is wide. Examples of long bones are the femur, tibia, and fibula of the leg, the humerus, radius, and ulna of the arm, ...
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One of the elongated bones of the extremities, consisting of a tubular shaft (diaphysis) and two extremities (epiphyses) usually wider than the shaft; the shaft is composed of compact bone surrounding a central medullary cavity. ... Compare: short bone. ... Synonym: os longum, pipe bone. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...
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one whose length far exceeds its breadth and thickness.
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Type: Term Definitions: 1. one of the elongated bones of the extremities, consisting of a tubular shaft (diaphysis) and two extremities (epiphyses) usually wider than the shaft; the shaft is composed of compact bone surrounding a central medullary cavity. Synonyms: os longum, pipe bone
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n] - in vertebrate animals: a long cylindrical marrow-containing bone of a limb
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os longum noun in limbs of vertebrate animals: a long cylindrical bone that contains marrow
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any of the long, cylindrical, marrow-containing bones of the limbs: the long bone of the arm.
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