American English pronunciation
How to pronounce cartilage
IPA transcription: ['kɑɹtələdʒ]
Pronunciation variants: ['kɑɹtələdʒ]['kɑɹtəlɪdʒ]
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Noun
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tough elastic tissue; mostly converted to bone in adults
Usage examples
- The cartilage in the affected joints will degrade, soften and wear away.
- The gene variant was hypothesized to disrupt normal building and maintenance of cartilage.
- The cartilage is the continuation of the cartilage framework of pinna.
- The fibroblasts within the granulation tissue develop into chondroblasts which also form hyaline cartilage.
- Articulation between costal cartilage of the ninth rib and tenth rib is fibrous.
- It is the most prevalent form of cartilage.
- The appendicular skeleton forms during development from cartilage, by the process of endochondral ossification.
- O'Dell suffered from a torn knee cartilage.
- During early embryonic development the endoskeleton is composed of notochord and cartilage.
- "Chondroplastic" - pertaining to plastic operations on cartilage.