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cartilage|ˈkɑːtɪlɪdʒ|
[a. F. cartilage (16th c. in Littré), ad. L. cartilāgo gristle.]
1. A firm elastic flexible tissue, of a whitish translucent colour, in vertebrate animals; gristle.
temporary cartilage is that which occurs only in very early life, and subsequently ossifies or changes to bone; permanent cartilage is that which permanently retains its character, e.g. the articular cartilage which coats the ends of bones at the joints, and the membraniform cartilage which occurs in the walls of cavities.
1541R. Copland Guydon's Quest. Chirurg., What is cartylage?.. It is a substaunce as it were of the kynde of bones, but it is softer or sowpler than the bone is. 1633P. Fletcher Purple Isl. iv. 44 note, The winde-pipe..is framed partly of cartilage, or grisly matter. 1797Godwin Enquirer i. iii. 15 What at first was cartilage..gradually becomes bone. 1873Mivart Elem. Anat. ii. 24 The adjacent surfaces of bones are coated with smooth cartilage.
b. A structure or formation consisting of cartilage, a gristly part; as the cartilages of the ribs.
1541R. Copland Guydon's Quest. Chirurg., The bones, grystles, or cartilages, the synewes. 1827F. Cooper Prairie II. i. 5 Ornaments..pendant from the cartilages of his ears.
†2. Applied to the coats of an onion. Obs.
1563T. Hill Art Garden. (1593) 131 The..number of cartilages, with the which the bodie [of an onion] is included.
3. Comb., as cartilage-corpuscle, cartilage-like adj.
1847Todd Cycl. Anat. IV. 518/1 The cartilage-like tendon. 1876tr. Wagner's Gen. Pathol. 154 Bone and cartilage-corpuscles. |