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Musculoskeletal Imaging

Howship's lacuna

(John Howship, 1781 - 1841, English surgeon), a scalloped cavity of bone undergoing resorption (see resorption of bone) or remodelling, also termed a resorption pit. Within the lacunae are embedded the bone resorbing cells, the osteoclasts.

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