cartilage

For example, the simulations did not account for cartilage, the flexible tissue that cushions joints and can help absorb and distribute stress.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 20, 2026

Because cartilage was not analyzed in any of the seven specimens, the researchers assumed that it played a similar role across the species.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 20, 2026

Those same mice were also able to eliminate sarcoma tumors, cancers that develop in connective tissues such as fat, muscle, nerves, blood vessels, bone, and cartilage.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 9, 2026

Doctors take a small sample of cartilage from a patient’s nose, use it to grow new cartilage in the lab, and then surgically implant it into damaged knee joints.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 14, 2026

But to me the hard cartilage is like eating the bones of a fish.

From "Orphan Train" by Christina Baker Kline

First, the tiny cartilages in the human larynx -- called the arytenoids -- that change the position of our vocal folds, have changed dramatically in whales.

From Science Daily ● Feb. 21, 2024

This ancient fish had separated, independent cartilages encasing the brain, rather than the solid bone or cartilage structure of jawless and jawed fish that followed it.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 20, 2023

For ribs 8–10, the costal cartilages are attached to the cartilage of the next higher rib.

From Textbooks ● Jun. 19, 2013

This consists of mesenchyme, the embryonic tissue that will become the bones, cartilages, and connective tissues of the body.

From Textbooks ● Jun. 19, 2013

It is composed of various cartilages, united in the form of a little box, and supplied with numerous muscles, that, moving altogether or separately, produce the variations of sound.

From Curiosities of Medical Experience by Millingen, J. G. (John Gideon)