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
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
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
As joints age or experience injury or excess stress from obesity, chondrocytes begin producing inflammatory molecules and breaking down collagen, the main structural component of cartilage.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 12, 2026
Our waitress appears, long denim skirt, thick Icelandic sweater, tiny shells dangling from cartilage piercings.
From "Wintergirls" by Laurie Halse Anderson
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
This consists of mesenchyme, the embryonic tissue that will become the bones, cartilages, and connective tissues of the body.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 19, 2013
It consists of the bones, cartilages, and ligaments.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 19, 2013
During the day, the constant pressure upon these joints, while the body is erect, diminishes the thickness of the cartilages; so that a person is not so tall in the evening as in the morning.
From A Treatise on Physiology and Hygiene For Educational Institutions and General Readers by Hutchison, Joseph Chrisman
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