cartilage
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The good news is that researchers are developing therapies that do what was once thought impossible: regenerate cartilage, boost the knee’s natural ability to heal, and prevent cartilage breakdown in the first place.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 13, 2026
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
This produces pain, swelling and stiffness and, over time, can damage cartilage, bone and surrounding tissues.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 5, 2026
I held up the spear-shaped cartilage in the breast bone, which most people don’t eat, and bit down with a satisfying crunch.
From "The Glass Castle" by Jeannette Walls
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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
It consists of the bones, cartilages, and ligaments.
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
The habit of child-bearing is indicated by a flatter breast, a broader back, and thicker cartilages of the bones of the pubis, necessary widening the pelvis.
From Beauty Illustrated Chiefly by an Analysis and Classificatin of Beauty in Woman by Alexander Walker
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