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Gross Anatomy of Bone: Compact and Spongy Bone

6. Bones & Skeletal Tissue / Gross Anatomy of Bone: Compact and Spongy Bone / Problem 2

What is the role of canaliculi in spongy bone?

A

To provide a pathway to exchange minerals and nutrients between neighboring osteocytes.

B

To reduce the skeleton weight for muscles to move the bones.

C

To trigger the deposition of calcium salts in the organic matrix.

D

All of these.

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