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For these materials, the endurance limit is defined as the stress amplitude corresponding to a somewhat arbitrary large number of cycles of fatigue (e.g. various texts suggest 10⁶ to 10⁸ cycles ). In previous work on compressive fatigue of bovine trabecular bone, it was hypothesized that there was a fatigue limit at a normalized stress, [Delta] [rho]/E₀, of approximately 0.0035. This study tested this hypothesis by fatigue testing bovine trabecular bone loaded to one of four normalized stresses ranging from 0.0015 to 0.0035. Failure was defined as a 10% loss in the secant modulus of the specimen. The data show that the rate of decrease of modulus reduction per cycle increased with increasing normalized stress. A fatigue limit in bovine trabecular bone was not found. While a threshold below which the fatigue life is infinite was not found, an endurance limit corresponding to 10⁶ cycles to failure was found at a normalized stress of about 0.00137. 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