cartilage

However, in rheumatoid arthritis, they can become abnormally aggressive, multiplying excessively, releasing inflammatory substances, and contributing to cartilage damage and tissue scarring.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 22, 2026

They also showed encouraging signs of slower deterioration in their knee cartilage.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 11, 2026

The condition gradually damages cartilage, the smooth, protective tissue that cushions the ends of bones and allows joints to move with minimal friction.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 11, 2026

Although exercise, physical therapy, weight management, and medications can help manage symptoms, there is currently no established treatment that reliably restores cartilage lost to osteoarthritis.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 11, 2026

The face looks as if it has melted, exposing the cheekbones, the tip of the nose cartilage, and teeth in a lipless mouth.

From "First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers" by Loung Ung

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

However, unlike at a cartilaginous joint, the articular cartilages of each bone are not continuous with each other.

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 J. G. (John Gideon) Millingen