CARTILAGE
\kˈɑːtɪlɪd͡ʒ], \kˈɑːtɪlɪdʒ], \k_ˈɑː_t_ɪ_l_ɪ_dʒ]\
Definitions of CARTILAGE
- 2010 - Medical Dictionary Database
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1920 - A practical medical dictionary.
- 1898 - Warner's pocket medical dictionary of today.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
- 1920 - A dictionary of scientific terms.
- 1846 - Medical lexicon: a dictionary of medical science
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
- 1790 - A Complete Dictionary of the English Language
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A non-vascular form of connective tissue composed of CHONDROCYTES embedded in a matrix of type II COLLAGEN and CHONDROITIN SULFATE. It is divided into three types: hyaline cartilage, fibrocartilage, and yellow or elastic white fibrocartilage.
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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A connective tissue substance characterized by its non-vascularity and by a homogeneous or fibrillated basement substance containing mucin, gelatin, and chondrin; there are three kinds of cartilage called hyaline cartilage, fibrocartilage, and fibroelastic cartilage; see below.
By Stedman, Thomas Lathrop
By William R. Warner
By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H.
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Gristle; a translucent, bluish-white tissue, firm and at the same time elastic, found for the most part in connection with bones of the skeleton, most of which are in the embryo represented by cartilage.
By Henderson, I. F.; Henderson, W. D.
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A solid part of the animal body, of a medium consistence between bone and ligament, which in the foetus is a substitute for bone, but in the adult exists only in the joints, at the extremities of the ribs, &c. Cartilages are of a whitish colour, flexible, compressible, and very elastic, and some of them apparently inorganic. They are composed, according to J. Davy, of.44 albumen, .55 water, and.01 phosphate of lime.
By Robley Dunglison
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The gristle or white elastic substance attached to articular bone-surfaces and forming parts of the skeleton.
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland
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Syn. : gristle, cartilaginous (or chondrogenous) tissue. A tough elastic tissue composed of characteristic cells and an abundant intercellular substance or matrix, found in various parts of the body, and forming the primordial skeleton (temporary c.) or persisting throughout life (permanent c). It presents three varieties, according to the matrix: 1. Hyaline, or true c, with a translucent, nearly or quite homogeneous matrix. 2. White fibroc, in which the matrix is composed mostly of white fibrous tissue. 3. Elastic c, in which the matrix is made up of a dense network of elastic tissue. The chemical constituents, beside inorganic salts, are chondromucoid, chondrorbin, sulphuric acid, collagen, and albuminoid. The nutrition of c. is by imbibition
By Smith Ely Jelliffe
