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. [ VSAO:0000047 http://dx.plos.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0051070 http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/go/references/0000034 PSPUB:0000170 ]
Synonyms: calcium tissue osseous tissue osteogenic tissue
Term information
- CALOHA:TS-2011
- EMAPA:35179
- XAO:0004040
- VSAO:0000047
- Wikipedia:Bone_tissue
- NCIT:C13076
- FMA:224804
- ZFA:0005621
- MA:0002780
- UMLS:C0391978 (ncithesaurus:Bone_Tissue)
- galen:BoneTissue
- MESH:D001842
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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.[VSAO]