单词 | cartilage |
释义 | cartilagen. 1. a. 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. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > structural parts > cartilage > [noun] > as substance gristlea700 ground-sopec725 crushelc1440 cartilage?1541 ?1541 R. Copland Guy de Chauliac's Questyonary Cyrurgyens ii. sig. Diij What is cartylage? Answere. It is a substaunce as it were of the kynde of bones, but it is softer or sowpler than the bone is. 1633 P. Fletcher Purple Island iv. xxviii. 44 (note) The winde-pipe..is framed partly of cartilage, or grisly matter. 1797 W. Godwin Enquirer i. iii. 15 What at first was cartilage..gradually becomes bone. 1873 St. G. Mivart Lessons 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. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > structural parts > cartilage > [noun] gristlea1240 gristle-bone1398 cartilage?1541 ?1541 R. Copland Guy de Chauliac's Questyonary Cyrurgyens ii. sig. Biv The bones, grystles, or cartilages, the synewes. 1827 J. F. Cooper Prairie II. i. 5 Ornaments..pendant from the cartilages of his ears. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular vegetables > [noun] > onion, leek, or garlic > onion > skin, seed, shoots, or bulbs onion seed1356 scallion1393 cartilage1563 onion skin1616 fold1675 tunic1832 onion set1859 grass1885 1563 T. Hill Arte Gardening (1593) 131 The..number of cartilages, with the which the bodie [of an onion] is included. Compounds cartilage-corpuscle, cartilage-like adj. ΚΠ 1849–52 Todd's Cycl. Anat. & Physiol. IV. i. 518/1 The cartilage-like tendon. 1876 J. Van Duyn & E. C. Seguin tr. E. L. Wagner Man. Gen. Pathol. 154 Bone and cartilage-corpuscles. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1888; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < |
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