cartilage
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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
Human trials in Europe are already under way, testing engineered cartilage implants developed at the University of Basel.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 14, 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
Samples collected during knee replacement surgeries began producing new, functional cartilage when exposed to the treatment.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 12, 2026
“I want to have my ear cartilage pierced like Ms. Sandnes.”
From "Three Little Words: A Memoir" by Ashley Rhodes-Courter
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
However, unlike at a cartilaginous joint, the articular cartilages of each bone are not continuous with each other.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 19, 2013
The skeletal system includes all of the bones, cartilages, and ligaments of the body that support and give shape to the body and body structures.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 19, 2013
The neural arch develops from the basidorsal cartilages that rest upon, and at first are entirely distinct from, the perichordal sheath.
From The Ancestry of Modern Amphibia: A Review of the Evidence by Eaton, Theodore H. (Theodore Hildreth)
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