Look up: Cartilage

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   Cartilage
   Cartilage or cartilaginous tissue covers the ends of the bones where they come together to make a joint. It enables the bones to move easily.
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   cartilage
   [n] - tough elastic tissue
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   Cartilage
   Dense grey or white tissue that is used to support, provide shape or to protect various parts of the body. For example, cartilage is found in the ear, nose and windpipe. It is also found on the ends of bones within joints, to allow the bones to move against each other more smoothly and to cushion them against shock during movement.
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   Cartilage
   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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   Cartilage
   Dense, tough tissue that lines the joints. A cancer of cartilage is called a chondrosarcoma.
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   Cartilage
   flexible skeletal tissue found in vertebrates and chordates, made of fibres of a rubbery protein. In most animals the embryo has a skeleton made entirely of cartilage, most of which is replaced by bone as it develops. Some fish, such as sharks and rays, retain a cartilage skeleton throughout life
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   Cartilage
   a connective tissue (softer than bone) that is part of the skeletal system, including the joints
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   Cartilage
   A complex tissue which has various different types. Perhaps most importantly it forms the smooth lining of most joints, allowing low friction motion. It is assisted in this by synnovial fluid, a thick biological lubricant present in most joints. As a result little wearing out occurs in normal joints
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   Cartilage
   Cartilage is a type of dense connective tissue. Cartilage serves several functions, including providing a framework upon which bone growth can begin and supplying smooth surfaces for the movement of articulating bones. Cartilage is found in many places in the body including the joints.
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    Cartilage
    a type of connective tissue
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    Cartilage
    Smooth, slippery substance preventing two ends of bones from rubbing together and grating.
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    Cartilage
    Tissue situated at the ends of bones which is firm, flexible and slightly elastic (gristle).
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    Cartilage
    Cartilage: Firm, rubbery tissue that cushions bones at joints. A more flexible kind of cartilage connects muscles with bones and makes up other parts of the body, such as the larynx and the outside parts of the ears.
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    cartilage
    a solid,white,tough,connective tissue consisting of a homogenous,translucent,intercellular substance in which are scattered nucleated cells lying in spaces called lacunae Category: Medicine
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    cartilage
    Connective tissue dominated by extracellular matrix containing collagen type II and large amounts of proteoglycan, particularly chondroitin sulphate. Cartilage is more flexible and compressible than bone and often serves as an early skeletal framework, becoming mineralised as the animal ages. Cartilage is produced by chondrocytes that come to lie in small lacunae surrounded by the matrix they have secreted.
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    Cartilage
    Car'ti·lage noun [ Latin cartilago ; confer French cartilage .] (Anat.) A translucent, elastic tissue; gristle. » Cartilage contains no vessels, and consists of a homogeneous, intercellular matrix, in which there are numerous minute cavities, or capsules, containing protoplasmic cells, the cartilage corpuscul. See Illust under Duplication . Artic ...
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    cartilage
    <pathology> Connective tissue dominated by extracellular matrix containing collagen type II and large amounts of proteoglycan, particularly chondroitin sulphate. ... Cartilage is more flexible and compressible than bone and often serves as an early skeletal framework, becoming mineralised as the animal ages. Cartilage is produced by chondrocyt ...
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    cartilage
    gristle noun tough elastic tissue; mostly converted to bone in adults
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    Cartilage
    `Cartilage` is a type of dense connective tissue. It is composed of collagen fibers and/or elastin fibers, and can supply smooth surfaces for the movement of articulating bones. Cartilage is found in many places in the body including the joints, the rib cage, the ear, the nose, the bronchial tubes and the intervertebral discs. There are three main types of cartilage: elastic, hyaline, and fibrocartilage.
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    cartilage
    (kahr´tĭ-lәj) a specialized, fibrous connective tissue present in adults, and forming most of the temporary skeleton in the embryo, providing a model in which most of the bones develop, and constituting an important part of the organism's growth mechanism; the three most important types are hyaline cart...
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    Cartilage
    • (n.) A translucent, elastic tissue; gristle.
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    cartilage
    connective tissue forming the skeleton of mammalian embryos before bone formation begins and persisting in parts of the human skeleton into ... [16 related articles]
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    cartilage
    A connective tissue characterized by its nonvascularity and firm consistency; consists of cells (chondrocytes), an interstitial matrix of fibers (collagen), and a ground substance (proteoglycans). There are three kinds of cartilage: hyaline cartilage, elastic cartilage, and fibrocartilage. Nonvascular, resilient, flexible connective tissue found pr...
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    cartilage
    A microscopic section of hyaline cartilage. The cartilage cells (chondrocytes) exist in little cavities (lacunae) in the smooth, glassy cartilaginous matrix. Photo: NIH/National Cancer Institute A dense type of connective tissue in which the functional component is the rubbery intercellular mat...
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    Cartilage
    A firm, slightly elastic connective tissue that constitutes the major portion of the fetal skeleton and is present in specialized areas of the adult body. Cartilage does not have any nerves or blood supply of its own.
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