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Osteoblasts, osteocytes and osteoid (600X)

Microimage
Image copyright: Mathias Nordvi, CC BY-NC-ND 4.0. (Tissue stain: Azan).

The bone is filled with osteocytes residing in their lacunae. The surface of teh bone is covered by osteoid and osteoblasts. a cross section through a blood vessel containing erythrocytes can be seen to the right in the image.