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===Ossmodula===
'''Phase 2:''' A small, complex, tubular organ, the ossmodula secretes hormones that both affect the ossification of the skeleton and encourages the forming bone growths to absorb ceramic-based chemicals that are laced into the Marine's diet. This drastically alters the way a Space Marine's bones grow and develop. Two years after this implant is first put in the subject's long bones will have increased in size and strength (along with most other bones), and the rib cage will have been fused into a solid, bulletproof mass of interlocking plates.{{Fn|1}}{{Fn|2a}}{{Fn|3}}{{Fn|11}}{{Fn|Note 1}} Contrary to this popular opinion, the truth is that a Space Marine's ribcage is several pieces, not a single solid piece.{{Fn|38}}
*Known mutations:
**[[Blood Angels]] have retractable fangs that are dubbed the '''Angel's Teeth'''.{{Fn|26}}
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===Notes===
*{{Endn|Note 1}}: It is not clear how a Space Marine's (non-implanted) lungs operate without a rib cage that can expand and contract.This is eventually addressed in some sources as a popular misunderstanding and clarified that the ribcage is still multiple pieces of bone.{{Fn|38}}
*{{Endn|Note 2}}: It is unknown whether [[Camba Diaz]] of the [[Imperial Fist]]s located the squad of human troops by their actual heartbeats alone or was simply citing his superhuman hearing as the squad attempted to remain stealthy while traversing the ruins. It is also unspecified whether Diaz can hear a human heartbeat up to or beyond a hundred metres with or without the aid of their helmet's equipment, as he was wearing one upon encountering the guardsmen and making said comment.{{Fn|22}}
*{{Endn|Note 3}}: The sense of smell and taste are closely linked.
*{{Endn|27}}: [[Codex: Space Wolves (10th Edition)]], pgs. 10-12
*{{Endn|28}}: [[White Dwarf 279 (UK)]] – pg. 50
*{{Endn|29}}: [[ Chapter Approved 2004]] – pgs. 8-9*{{Endn|30}}: [[ Codex: Space Marines (8th Edition, 2nd Codex)]], pg. 59
*{{Endn|31}}: [[Warrior Brood (Novel)]] – Chapter 1
*{{Endn|32}}: [[ White Dwarf 98 (UK)]] – pg. 14*{{Endn|33}}: [[ Codex Supplement: Salamanders (8th Edition)]] – pg. 10
*{{Endn|34}}: [[Space Marine (Novel)]] – Chapter 4
*{{Endn|35}}: [[Codex: Space Marines (4th Edition)]], pg. 17
*{{Endn|36}}: [[Flayed (Short Story)]]
*{{Endn|37}}: [[Fabius Bile: Primogenitor (Novel)]], Chapter Twenty
*{{Endn|38}}: [[Fabius Bile: Clonelord (Novel)]], Chapter Nineteen
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