cartilage

car·ti·lage  (kärtl-j)

n.

A tough, elastic, fibrous connective tissue found in various parts of the body, such as the joints, outer ear, and larynx. A major constituent of the embryonic and young vertebrate skeleton, it is converted largely to bone with maturation.

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[Middle English, from Old French, from Latin cartilg, cartilgin-.]

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cartilage [kar-till-ij]

Noun

a strong flexible tissue forming part of the skeleton [Latin cartilago]

cartilaginous adj

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cartilage  (kärtl-j)

A strong, flexible connective tissue that is found in various parts of the body, including the joints, the outer ear, and the larynx. During the embryonic development of most vertebrates, the skeleton forms as cartilage before most of it hardens into bone. In cartilaginous fish, the mature fish retains a skeleton made of cartilage.

Thesaurus

Noun

1.

cartilage - tough elastic tissue; mostly converted to bone in adults gristle animal tissue - the tissue in the bodies of animals collagen - a fibrous scleroprotein in bone and cartilage and tendon and other connective tissue; yields gelatin on boiling meniscus, semilunar cartilage - (anatomy) a disk of cartilage that serves as a cushion between the ends of bones that meet at a joint fibrocartilage - cartilage that is largely composed of fibers like those in ordinary connective tissue hyaline cartilage - translucent cartilage that is common in joints and the respiratory passages; forms most of the fetal skeleton arytaenoid, arytenoid, arytenoid cartilage - either of two small cartilages at the back of the larynx to which the vocal folds are attached thyroid cartilage, Adam's apple - the largest cartilage of the larynx cartilaginous structure - body structure given shape by cartilage ground substance, intercellular substance, matrix - the body substance in which tissue cells are embedded

Translations

cartilage [ˈkɑːtɪlɪdʒ] n → cartílago

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cartilage [ˈkɑːtɪlɪdʒ] n → cartilage m

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cartilage [ˈkɑːtɪlɪdʒ] n → Knorpel m

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cartilage [ˈkɑːtɪlɪdʒ] n → cartilagine f