Sequestrum
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A sequestrum is a piece of dead bone that has become separated during necrosis from normal or sound bone. It is a complication of osteomyelitis.
X-ray of a child's femur, showing a bony sequestrum indicated by the blue arrow.
Bone
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A bone is a rigid organ that constitutes part of the skeleton in most vertebrate animals. Bones protect the organs of the body, produce red and white blood cells, store minerals, help regulate acid-ba
Sequestrum
…A sequestrum (plural: sequestra) is a piece of dead bone that has become separated during necrosis from normal or sound bone. It is a complication (sequela) of osteomyelitis. The pathological process is as…
A bone dating from the Pleistocene Ice Age of an extinct species of an elephant, possibly a mammoth
A scanning electronic micrograph of a Wistar rat's bone at 10,000× magnification
Structure of a long bone
Cross-section details of a long bone