Skeletal tissue with a collagen-rich extracellular matrix vascularized, mineralized with hydroxyapatite and typically including osteocytes located in lacunae that communicate with one another by cell processes (in canaliculi). Bone is deposited by osteoblasts. [ PSPUB:0000170 http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/go/references/0000034 http://dx.plos.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0051070 VSAO:0000047 ]
Synonyms: calcium tissue osseous tissue osteogenic tissue
Term information
- MA:0002780
- NCIT:C13076
- EMAPA:35179
- FMA:224804
- galen:BoneTissue
- Wikipedia:Bone_tissue
- CALOHA:TS-2011
- VSAO:0000047
- XAO:0004040
- MESH:D001842
- ZFA:0005621
uberon_slim, pheno_slim