cartilage
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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
Osteoarthritis primarily damages hyaline cartilage, also called articular cartilage.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 12, 2026
Samples collected during knee replacement surgeries began producing new, functional cartilage when exposed to the treatment.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 12, 2026
And it was good, Colin supposed, if you happened to enjoy searching through an endless labyrinth of bones and cartilage for the occasional sliver of meat.
From "An Abundance of Katherines" by John Green
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
For ribs 8–10, the costal cartilages are attached to the cartilage of the next higher rib.
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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