cancellous

WORDNET DICTIONARY

Adjective cancellous has 1 sense

CIDE DICTIONARY

cancellousa. [Cf. L. cancellosus covered with bars.].
     Having a spongy or porous structure; made up of cancelli; cancellated; as, the cancellous texture of parts of many bones.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

cancellous, adj. (of a bone) with pores.

Etymology
L cancelli lattice

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