camellate

See also: cammellate

English

Etymology

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Adjective

camellate (not comparable)

1. (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.

Derived terms

• camellation
• procamellate

Related terms

• camerate