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A combining form meaning a grain, granular, granular cartilage, cartilaginous; as, the chondrocranium, the cartilaginous skull of the lower vertebrates and of embryos.

The development of cartilage.

Resembling cartilage.

The science which treats of cartilages. Dunglison.

The dissection of cartilages.

Pertaining to the concha, or external ear; as, the conchal cartilage.

lular tissue and connective tissue. Adipose or fatty tissue is one of its many forms, and cartilage and bone are sometimes included by the phrase.

orpuscles; or such as are imbedded in an intercellular matrix, like connective tissue and cartilage corpuscles. See Blood. Virchow showed that the corpuscles of bone are homologous with those of connective tissue. Quain's Anat. Red blood corpuscles (Physiol.), in man, yellowish, biconcave, circular discs varying from 1…

Relating to a costa, or rib. Costal cartilage. See Cartilage, and Illust. of Thorax.

Resembling a ring; -- said esp. of the cartilage at the larynx, and the adjoining parts.

Of or pertaining both to the cricoid and the thyroid cartilages.

ct or process of dividing by natural growth or spontaneous action; as, the duplication of cartilage cells. Carpenter. Duplication of the cube (Math.), the operation of finding a cube having a volume which is double that of a given cube.

A condition of bone cartilage occurring in certain diseases of these tissues, in which they acquire an unnatural density, and come to resemble ivory.

ification takes place in the perichondrium and either surrounds or gradually replaces the cartilage.

Growing or developing within cartilage; -- applied esp. to developing bone.

A process of bone formation in which ossification takes place within the substance of the cartilage.

Having the form of a sword blade; sword-shaped; as, an ensiform leaf. Ensiform cartilage, and Ensiform process. (Anat.) See Xiphisternum.

An epibranchial cartilage or bone.

An epipharyngeal bone or cartilage.

An epipterygoid bone or cartilage; the columella in the skulls of many lizards.