THE numerous Fishes that inhabit the waters all over the globe are divided into two great groups—the Cartilaginous Fishes, with their framework made up of bones in the form of cartilage or gristle, and the Osseous, or bony Fishes.
Until they become perfectly hard, these two early sprouts are protected from any external friction by a kind of velvety skin, which dries up as soon as the cartilage turns to bone.
The muscle which passes through a loop, or staple of cartilage I, and turns the eye obliquely.
It consists of several muscles and a cartilage which supports a chitinous radula, or lingual ribbon, armed with teeth.
The bone or cartilage forming the anterior extremity of the lower jaw in some adult animals and the young of others.
Capable of producing bone; having the power to change cartilage or other tissue into bone.
The cartilage is shaded and dotted, and the bony centers are light and striated.
Another cartilageor ossification, the posterior sclerotic ring, occurs within the walls of the posterior portion of the cup, and surrounds, especially in the Pici and in the Passeres, the entrance of the optic nerve.
The bone orcartilage between the radiale and ulnare in the carpus, and between the tibiale and fibulare in the tarsus.
Nahíwì ang íyang ilung kay napislat ang alud-ud, His nose got crooked because the cartilage was squashed.
Why is cartilageplaced between the bones of the spine?
Of about twenty-four short bones, with cartilage between them.
It is composed of twenty-four short bones, piled one upon the other, with cartilage between them.
The bone or cartilage of the tarsus, which articulates with the fibula, and corresponds to the calcaneum in man and most mammals.
Producing a different type of organism; developing into a different form of tissue, ascartilage which develops into bone.
A kind of cartilage with a fibrous matrix and approaching fibrous connective tissue in structure.
The free margin of the epiglottis was rough and eroded; and on the posterior aspect of the ericoid cartilage there were two small red patches.
Human Articular Cartilage from head of a metatarsal bone (Normal).
Mince the meat, and pound the giblets in a Wedgewood mortar, when you have removed skin and cartilagefrom the gizzards.
Within the body of the cartilage arises a forked eminence called antihelix, which terminates in a small and short tongue called antitragus.
This cartilage is of a very compound figure, being a kind of oval, marked with spirals standing up, and hollows interposed, to which other hollows and ridges correspond on the opposite side.
This name is employed to designate an infectious inflammation of the lateral cartilage and adjoining structures.
The disease is characterized by a slowly progressive necrosis and by a destruction of more or less of thecartilage and by the presence of fistulous tracts.
Rarefying osteitis wherein articular cartilage was destroyed in a case of arthritis of fetlock joint.
Should the elasticcartilage under pathological conditions become converted into bone, its functions are destroyed, and lameness may occur.
If extensive necrosis of cartilage takes place, the attendant pain will be sufficient to cause the animal to favor the diseased part and such immobilization enhances early ankylosis--nature's substitute for resolution in this disease.
Firing is of no practical benefit in these cases, and it is doubtful if vesication is helpful excepting where only a part of the cartilage is ossified.
Morbific material is introduced into the region of the lateral cartilage by means of calk wounds and other penetrant injuries of the foot.
Ossification of the cartilages is known by grasping the free borders with the fingers and attempting their flexion; the rigid inflexible ossified cartilage is thus easily recognized.
There is no chance for complete recovery in the usual case of carpal fracture because of the fact that there results sufficient arthritis to destroy articular cartilage beyond repair.
Where only one cartilage is ossified, the other being flexible, there is less inconvenience experienced by the subject during weight-bearing, because of the expansion of the heel which the one normal cartilage allows.
The cartilage of prolongation of the scapula is sometimes seriously involved in certain cases of fistulous withers, and in some instances it has been separated from its attachment to the rhomboidea muscles, and lameness has resulted.
Skin of neck below thyroid cartilage showed deep mark from pressure of collar of uniform where the collar was fastened; had passed urine into his clothing.
Just above thyroid cartilage extending on right side from median line in front to spinous process was a dirty brown deep furrow with congested walls; on left side a line of discoloration due to direct action of rope.
It is most serious where the cricoid cartilage had been fractured, as this requires a greater degree of violence.
Also on either side of the ensiform cartilage and especially on the left side there occurs an area of the diaphragm which may be congenitally weak or even absent, and here too rupture and hernia are likely to occur.
Both upper cornua of thyroid cartilage fractured; cricoid fractured on each side.
The custom of extracting a front tooth prevails among them, while the nasal cartilage here as elsewhere was perforated.
He had a small piece of wood two feet long, sticking through thecartilage of his nose.
In Selachians exactly the same thing takes place, but in recent forms development goes a step further, as the cartilage cylinder becomes broken into a series of segments, known as vertebral centra.
In the Crossopterygians[35] the chondrocranium persists to a great extent in the adult, but portions of it are replaced by cartilage bones--the most interesting being a large sphenethmoid like that of the frog.
In Lepidosteus the spaces between adjacent centra become filled by a secondary development of intervertebralcartilage which then splits in such a way that the definitive vertebrae are opisthocoelous, i.
In the embryonic connective tissue or mesenchyme lying just outside the primary sheath of the notochord there are developed a dorsal and a ventral series of paired nodules of cartilage known as arcualia (fig.
In the case of Polypterus a short rod of cartilage projects from the hyoid arch into the base of the external gill.
Of cartilage bones four are developed round the foramen magnum--the basioccipital, supraoccipital and two exoccipitals.
In the anterior or ethmoidal portion of the cranium the only cartilage bones are a pair of lateral ethmoids lying at the anterior boundary of the orbit.
In the sturgeon the chondrocranium is ensheathed by numerous membrane bones, butcartilage bones are absent.
They wander throughout the whole extent of the secondary sheath, colonizing it as it were, and settle down as typical stationary cartilage cells.
In these forms no invasion of the secondary sheath by cartilagecells takes place.
When the probe touches necrosedcartilage it will feel like a piece of dry leather or partially softened wood.
This tumor formation is composed of cartilage cells.
There is no cartilage in the kidney or parotid gland, yet a chondroma, or cartilage tumor, may develop in either.
A serous cyst is found occasionally between the cartilage and the skin on the base of the ear, which may be from a similar cause.
Whenever there is a long-continued, persistent discharge from one or more openings in the ear, disease of the cartilage may be suspected.
It is very hard, dense, elastic, and painless and develops principally where we find normal cartilage cells.
When the cartilage has been extensively injured, pieces of it may become dead (necrosed) and dissolve, to be carried away with the pus, or it may lead to extensive sloughing and the formation of numerous running sores.
To secure the cow in a standing position, grasp the nose, the finger and thumb being introduced into the nostrils, and press against the cartilage which makes a division between them.
A counter opening must then be made at this place, and all diseased cartilage cut away with the knife.
In the disease of the cartilage there is seldom much swelling or great pain.
That the gristle of the bone or cartilage was very palatable is attested not only by the toothmarks upon these bones, but by many similar markings found in the Bone-Cabin Quarry.
If the full weight of the animal came on these imperfect joints the cartilage would yield and the ends of the bones would grind against each other, thus preventing the limb from moving without tearing the joint to pieces.
The bones are light and spongy, and the spine particularly flexible, from the amount of cartilagebetween the bones.
Turn the ears inside out, the nostrils, lips, and feet, removing allcartilage and flesh.
The lower nasal cartilage is prolonged on to the fibrous cord of the nares, and the profile view of the animal in life is that of a grotesquely Roman-nosed antelope with swollen nostrils.
He also notices another interesting peculiarity in the chest of this animal, the breast-bone being very long; the cartilageat end large, with two long projections resembling those of the lizards.
Henriette's eyes were narrow slits, become like her mother's, and her lips tightly compressed made her mouth a short gash and drew down her nose till the cartilage of the thin bridge showed white.
You have the cartilage for a Number One nose," he went on, his professional eagerness undisturbed.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "cartilage" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: bone; leather; ligament; tendon
