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Description: Bone actually has three layers. On the outside, there's the periosteum, a tough membrane that covers and protects. Next, there's a thick layer of compact bone, the white, hard, smooth part that most people are familiar with. But inside, there is spongy or trabecular bone, and an inner core filled with bone marrow,

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To me a lush carpet of pine needles or spongy grass is more welcome than the most luxurious Persian rug.

American Author

Use 'spongy' when the softness enables soaking up liquid, similar to kitchen sponges.

Associative Context

'Spongy' can suggest a pleasing, soft quality in foods like cakes or bread.

Positive Connotation

Objects described as 'spongy' shouldn't resist pressure and should compress easily.

Soft and Absorbent

Use 'spongy' to describe terrain or materials that water can infiltrate due to small holes.

Permeable Surfaces

In some contexts, 'spongy' may imply poor quality or lack of firmness.

Not Always Positive

'Spongy' often evokes imagery of a surface covered with small indentations.

Visual Imagery

In medical contexts, 'spongy' relates to abnormal softness, suggesting potential health issues.

Medical Condition

When 'spongy' is used medically, it's not describing normal texture, which signals a careful examination.

Unusual Texture

 Bone actually has three layers. On the outside, there's the periosteum, a tough membrane that covers and protects. Next, there's a thick layer of compact bone, the white, hard, smooth part that most people are familiar with. But inside, there is spongy or trabecular bone, and an inner core filled with bone marrow,

Why healthy bones are...

 So, the wheels that look like they are one monolithic structure of aluminum, they are not. They are about seven sheets of paper of aluminum on the outside shell. But in the middle it's titanium and the titanium is there to give us sort of a spongy, flexer feel. You are going to see us doing some testing.

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 called bronchioles. It's tempting to think of the lungs as huge balloons, but instead of being hollow, they're actually spongy inside, with the bronchioles running throughout the parenchyma tissue. At the end of each bronchiole is a little air sack called an alveolus,

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 causes that wood inside to form a spongy material which i think is quite nutritious but that's basically wood that's basically cellulose and cellulose is extremely difficult for any animal to digest unless it has got cellulase in its gut or bacteria to help it digest

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 And in these cavities, these micro-cavities form, and as they fuse soils, they absorb water. These are little wells. And inside these wells, then microbial communities begin to form. And so the spongy soil not only resists erosion, but sets up a microbial universe

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 Not terribly interesting. But what she smells, that's a totally different story. And it begins at her wonderfully developed nose. As your dog catches the first hints of fresh air, her nose's moist, spongy outside helps capture any scents the breeze carries.

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 Bone-forming cells replace the cartilage with a spongy mineral lattice made of elements like calcium and phosphate. This lattice gets harder, as osteoblasts, which are specialized bone-forming cells, deposit more mineral, giving bones their strength.

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 is called regenerative medicine. For example, scientists currently use stem cells to treat patients with blood diseases such as leukemia. Leukemia is a form of cancer that affects your bone marrow. Bone marrow is the spongy tissue inside your bones

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 In both cases, the resulting substance can be used to make spongy foods like tofu or filtered to produce soymilk. And at the industrial scale, these proteins can be used in various ways to help make processed foods.

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 So that's what I do. So if you cut open a little dinosaur, it's very spongy inside, like A. And if you cut into an older dinosaur, it's very massive.

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