Short bones are somewhat cube-shaped and nearly equal in length and width.

短骨略呈立方体形，其长度和宽度几乎相等。

Follow some of those long bones to your foot or hand, and you'll hit a cube-shaped short bone, like your foot's talus and cuboid, or your wrist's lacunate or scaphoid.

沿着这些长骨中的一些延伸到你的脚或手，你会碰到一个立方体形状的短骨头，比如你脚的距骨和长方体，或者你手腕的裂隙或舟骨。

Their texture is spongy except at the surface, where there is a thin layer of compact bone. Examples of short bones are the wrist and ankle bones.

它们的结构除表面为一层菲薄的密质骨外，其余部分如海绵般疏松多孔。短骨的实例包括腕骨和踝骨。