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fibrocartilage

Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun Cartilage that contains numerous thick bundles of collagen fibers.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A tissue resembling cartilage, but differing from it in that the intercellular substance becomes fibrillated.
  • noun A part of fibrocartilaginous tissue; any individual plate, disk, or other piece of fibrocartilage lying in or about a joint.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Anat.) A kind of cartilage with a fibrous matrix and approaching fibrous connective tissue in structure.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun A tough form of cartilage that has a matrix of dense bundles of fibres

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun cartilage that is largely composed of fibers like those in ordinary connective tissue

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Examples

  • However, while scar tissue, called fibrocartilage, fills the area where the cartilage is missing, it does not have the same strength and resiliency as normal articular cartilage.

    THE MEDICAL NEWS 2009

  • The fibrocartilage skeleton and related structures of the ventral pouch of balaenopterid whales.

    Archive 2006-10-01 Darren Naish 2006

  • The fibrocartilage skeleton and related structures of the ventral pouch of balaenopterid whales.

    From cigar to elongated, bloated tadpole: rorquals part II Darren Naish 2006

  • The fibers in fibrocartilage give it its toughness, and the cartilage part gives it its flexibility.

    Historiffic Sarah Werning 2007

  • The fibers in fibrocartilage give it its toughness, and the cartilage part gives it its flexibility.

    Archive 2007-06-01 Sarah Werning 2007

  • The Articular Disk (discus articularis; interarticular fibrocartilage; articular meniscus) (Fig. 311).

    III. Syndesmology. 5d. Articulation of the Mandible 1918

  • In three-fourths of a large number of cases, the aorta bifurcated either upon the fourth lumbar vertebra, or upon the fibrocartilage between it and the fifth; the bifurcation being, in one case out of nine, below, and in one out of eleven, above this point.

    VI. The Arteries. 5b. The Common Iliac Arteries 1918

  • Behind, it is separated from the bodies of the fourth and fifth lumbar vertebræ, and the intervening fibrocartilage, by the terminations of the two common iliac veins and the commencement of the inferior vena cava.

    VI. The Arteries. 5b. The Common Iliac Arteries 1918

  • It is regarded as a rudimentary intervertebral fibrocartilage, and in it traces of the notochord may persist.

    III. Syndesmology. 5c. Articulations of the Vertebral Column with the Cranium 1918

  • The jugular notch is in the same horizontal plane as the lower border of the body of the second thoracic vertebra; the sternal angle is at the level of the fifth thoracic vertebra, while the junction between the body and xiphoid process of the sternum corresponds to the fibrocartilage between the ninth and tenth thoracic vertebræ.

    XII. Surface Anatomy and Surface Markings. 6. Surface Markings of the Thorax 1918

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