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| | [Frontiers in Bioscience 3, d838-848, August 1, 1998] |
 | | Intramembranous ossification occurs when mesenchymal precursor cells proliferate and subsequently differentiate directly into osteoblasts which mineralize an immature bone tissue called woven bone, characterized by irregular bundles of randomly oriented collagen fibers and an abundance of partially calcified immature new bone, called osteoid. |
 | | This embryonic cartilage is avascular, and during its early development, a ring of woven bone is formed by intramembranous ossification in the future midshaft area. |
 | | In the distal parts of the limbs, ossification is first observed in the middle region of the cartilage primordia of the metacarpals at about 16.5 days p.c., and complete ossification of the digits of both fore- and hindlimbs is not completed until 18.5 days p.c. |
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