cartilage

Healthy cartilage allows the knee to move smoothly while helping protect the bones.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 20, 2026

It does this by reducing friction between your cartilage and joints.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 16, 2026

So exercise helps gets this fluid, and the nutrients it contains, to cartilage.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 16, 2026

Apart from the jaws and teeth, shark skeletons are mostly cartilage, so vertebrae are rare and important.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 7, 2026

Then you broke the crab in half, like a turnover, and picked out the meat from between sections of cartilage.

From "Homecoming" by Cynthia Voigt

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

Costal cartilages connect the anterior ends of the ribs to the sternum, with the exception of rib pairs 11 and 12, which are free-floating ribs.

From Textbooks ● Jun. 9, 2022

For ribs 8–10, the costal cartilages are attached to the cartilage of the next higher rib.

From Textbooks ● Jun. 19, 2013

In their ears, and the cartilages of the nose, were inserted rings of silver and brass, with pendants of various shapes; their features prominent and harsh, and their eyes had a wild and ferocious expression.

From The Spaniards in Florida Comprising the notable settlement of the Huguenots in 1564, and the History and Antiquities of St. Augustine, Founded A.D. 1565 by George R. Fairbanks