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
Because cartilage was not analyzed in any of the seven specimens, the researchers assumed that it played a similar role across the species.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 20, 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
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
The doctors were going to remove a chunk of cartilage from one of my right ribs and use it to rebuild my face, they said.
From "Ugly" by Robert Hoge
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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
The skeletal system includes all of the bones, cartilages, and ligaments of the body.
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
This substance is in part very nourishing; it is often obtained from bones and cartilages, and then sold under the name of "bouillon-tables," which, when boiled in water, make a tolerably good soup.
From Popular Books on Natural Science For Practical Use in Every Household, for Readers of All Classes by Bernstein, Aaron David
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