cartilage
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It also helped restore the normal structure of cartilage and the synovium, the tissue that lines the inside of joints.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 23, 2026
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
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 a slate of research teams around the world are on an ambitious quest to cure arthritis, developing therapies that regrow cartilage and rebuild underlying bone to heal damaged joints.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 14, 2026
Proteins also form the structural components of the cell: filaments of hair, nails, cartilage, or the matrices that trap and tether cells.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
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
The costal cartilages from these ribs do not attach directly to the sternum.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 19, 2013
Chondrog′raphy, a description of the cartilages; Chondrol′ogy, the knowledge of the cartilages.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various
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