camellate
See also: cammellate
English
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Adjective
camellate (not comparable)
- (of a bone) Having many small internal spaces, rather than fewer larger ones.
- 2005, Kristina Curry Rogers, The Sauropods: Evolution and Paleobiology, page 212:
- For example, the long bones of birds and mammals are usually tubular at midshaft, but the epiphyses mostly consist of marrow-filled trabecular bone or pneumatic camellate bone.
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Derived terms
- camellation
- procamellate
Related terms
- camerate