cartilage
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These cells can grow excessively in rheumatoid arthritis and contribute to inflammation, thickening of joint tissue, and damage to cartilage and bone.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 23, 2026
Those same mice were also able to eliminate sarcoma tumors, cancers that develop in connective tissues such as fat, muscle, nerves, blood vessels, bone, and cartilage.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 9, 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
At Columbia, scientists envision a future when they will use a patient’s own cells or donor cells to grow new bone and cartilage as a new form of total joint replacement.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 14, 2026
Then they took cartilage from the amputated foot and sculpted it around the bone to make me a nose.
From "Ugly" by Robert Hoge
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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 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 first of these cartilages articulates with a nodule situated a little above the middle of the first bone of the sternum.
From Artistic Anatomy of Animals by ?douard Cuyer
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