LONG BONE

• typically longer than they are wide
• they have a shaft with heads at both ends.
• Long bones are mostly compact bone
• All the bones of the limbs,except the wrist and ankle bones, are long bones.

SHORT BONE

• generally cube-shaped and contain mostly spongy bone
• best-known example is the patella, or kneecap.

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