cartilage
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Healthy cartilage allows the knee to move smoothly while helping protect the bones.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 20, 2026
Each joint is cushioned by articular cartilage, a type of specialized tissue that covers the ends of bones.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 16, 2026
This cartilage protects the joints and creates a smooth surface for motion.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 16, 2026
So exercise helps gets this fluid, and the nutrients it contains, to cartilage.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 16, 2026
“Remember when I tore the cartilage in my knee? During that basketball game back in sixth grade?”
From "Red Kayak" by Priscilla Cummings
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
The sclerotomes consist of an embryonic tissue called mesenchyme, which will give rise to the fibrous connective tissues, cartilages, and bones of the body.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 19, 2013
The embryonic tissue that gives rise to all bones, cartilages, and connective tissues of the body is called mesenchyme.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 19, 2013
During the day, the constant pressure upon these joints, while the body is erect, diminishes the thickness of the cartilages; so that a person is not so tall in the evening as in the morning.
From A Treatise on Physiology and Hygiene For Educational Institutions and General Readers by Joseph Chrisman Hutchison
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