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Cancellus vs Cancellous - What's the difference?

cancellus | cancellous |

As a noun cancellus

is (architecture) a barrier, balustrade or railing, or screen, dividing the main body of a church from the chancel.

As an adjective cancellous is

(anatomy|of bone) having low density and strength but high surface area, of the kind that fills the inner cavity of long bones.

cancellus

English

Noun

(cancelli)
  • (architecture) A barrier, balustrade or railing, or screen, dividing the main body of a church from the chancel.
  • (anatomy) One of the interlacing osseous plates constituting the elastic porous tissue of certain parts of the bones, especially in their articular extremities.
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    cancellous

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • (anatomy, of bone) Having low density and strength but high surface area, of the kind that fills the inner cavity of long bones.

    • Synonyms

    * trabecular