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spongy
(redirected from spongier)

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The lead in more compacted cortical bones, such as the tibia, is less available for mobilization, because this type of bone is less prone to turnover than spongier trabecular bones, such as the patella.
As dissatisfied with the spongier elements of the New Historicism as with Tillyardian doctrinaire reductionism, Wells takes issue with the polarity of political collusion and resistance as a critical premise, affected renunciation of a privileged canonicity, and self-conscious appropriation of transhistorical totalities of intellectual and social processes, while he waives comprehensive philosophical critique to recent monographs.
However, individuals with the variant gene shunted proportionately more of their stored lead into the spongier trabecular bone (of kneecaps and vertebrae, for instance) than did those with the normal gene.
 
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