The outer layers of solid, hard bone that covers spongy bone; consists of parallel osteons containing mineral deposits and interstitial lamellae. [ http://www.informatics.jax.org/accession/hdene MP:0003797 https://www.worldcat.org/search?q=bn%3A0-683-40008-8 ]
Synonyms: substantia compacta (pars ossea) compact bone substantia compacta cortical bone tissue bony cortex compact bone tissue cortical bone cortical region of bone substantia corticalis
Term information
- galen:CorticalBone
- MA:0001461
- SCTID:361728003
- Wikipedia:Compact_bone
- NCIT:C52714
- FMA:24018
- UMLS:C0222661 (ncithesaurus:Cortical_Bone)
- EMAPA:35250
uberon_slim, pheno_slim