TISSUE TYPES
1- BASIC STRUCTURE OF BONE TISSUES
Bone tissues are made of a hard calcified matrix,
and of osteocytes scattered in the matrix.
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Osteocytes lie in little chambers: the lacunae.
A fine network of hairlike canals (= the canaliculi),
radiate from each lacunae in all direction and connect
these lacunae to each other. Canaliculi are filled with extracellular fluid and
contain the fine
cytoplasmic processes (= extensions)
of the osteocytes: this allows the osteocytes to be connected to each other
by their very fine tentacle-like cytoplasmic processes.