Bone tissue

System Musculoskeletal

Bone tissue

Definition

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.

Also known as calcium tissue, osseous tissue, osteogenic tissue — per UBERON

The Bone tissue is a part of the Musculoskeletal.

Also identified as