cartilage
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Advanced MRI scans can catch early signs of cartilage breakdown, long before a standard X-ray would.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 13, 2026
Osteoarthritis, a joint disease causing pain, stiffness and cartilage loss, found her anyway.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 13, 2026
The gradual breakdown of cartilage is known as osteoarthritis, a condition which affects more than 500 million people worldwide.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 16, 2026
Each joint is cushioned by articular cartilage, a type of specialized tissue that covers the ends of bones.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 16, 2026
He ate as he made his way back to the arroyo, chewing the soft bone cartilage of pork ribs he found.
From "Ceremony:" by Leslie Marmon Silko
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 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 costal cartilages, from the second to the eighth, are, as in the ox, at first flattened laterally, near the ribs; while near the sternum they are flattened from front to back.
From Artistic Anatomy of Animals by ?douard Cuyer
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