cartilage
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Each joint is cushioned by articular cartilage, a type of specialized tissue that covers the ends of bones.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 16, 2026
It does this by reducing friction between your cartilage and joints.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 16, 2026
Synovial fluid also supplies cartilage with key nutrients.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 16, 2026
Apart from the jaws and teeth, shark skeletons are mostly cartilage, so vertebrae are rare and important.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 7, 2026
Faith moves the hair away from my right ear, and I can actually hear the needle penetrating the cartilage.
From "A Mango-Shaped Space" by Wendy Mass
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
Costal cartilages connect the anterior ends of the ribs to the sternum, with the exception of rib pairs 11 and 12, which are free-floating ribs.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 9, 2022
These cartilages are made of hyaline cartilage and can extend for several inches.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 19, 2013
The epicoracoidal cartilages overlap in the usual arciferal manner, except that they are fused anteriorly between the slender clavicles.
From Neotropical Hylid Frogs, Genus Smilisca by William E. Duellman
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