part_of skeletal tissue dermal skeleton endoskeleton bone tissue Skeletal tissue with a collagen-rich extracellular matrix vascularized, mineralized with hydroxyapatite and typically including osteocytes located in lacunae that communicate with one another by cell processes (in canaliculi). Bone is deposited by osteoblasts. VSAO:0000047 bone osteogenic tissue vertebrate_skeletal_anatomy bone element