cartilage : Idioms & Phrases

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Articular cartilage

  • cartilage that lines the joints.
Webster 1913

arytenoid cartilage

  • noun either of two small cartilages at the back of the larynx to which the vocal folds are attached
    arytenoid; arytaenoid.
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Cartilage bone

  • noun any bone that develops within cartilage rather than a fibrous tissue
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  • (Anat.), any bone formed by the ossification of cartilage.
Webster 1913

Costal cartilage

  • noun the cartilages that connect the sternum and the ends of the ribs; its elasticity allows the chest to move in respiration
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  • cartilage joining a rib with he sternum. See Illust. of Thorax.
  • . See Cartilage, and Illust. of Thorax.
Webster 1913

Ensiform cartilage, ∧ Ensiform process

  • . (Anat.) See Xiphisternum.
Webster 1913

Floating cartilage

  • (Med.), a cartilage which moves freely in the cavity of a joint, and often interferes with the functions of the latter.
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hyaline cartilage

  • noun translucent cartilage that is common in joints and the respiratory passages; forms most of the fetal skeleton
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Meckelian cartilage

  • the cartilaginous rod which forms the axis of the mandible; called also Meckel's cartilage.
Webster 1913

semilunar cartilage

  • noun (anatomy) a disk of cartilage that serves as a cushion between the ends of bones that meet at a joint
    meniscus.
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Sesamoid bones, Sesamoid cartilages

  • (Anat.), small bones or cartilages formed in tendons, like the patella and pisiform in man.
Webster 1913

Thyroid cartilage

  • noun the largest cartilage of the larynx
    Adam's apple.
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  • . See under Larynx.
Webster 1913