how bones get nutrition

Question

Are there veins inside the bones that drop nutrients into it or is it the blood from the skin/meat laying on top of the bone that gives it nutrition?

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Answer 1

Bones are porous. They’re not solid, dead bone. They receive blood, just like other tissues. The marrow inside them manufacture stem cells, which make platelets and red and white blood cells.

They have cavities that essentially receive nutrition from nearby arteries, to put it simply, through diffusion.