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A pharyngobranchial, or upper pharyngeal, bone or cartilage.

A bone or cartilage, of some animals, situated in the middle line in front of the pubic bones.

The anterior of three principal cartilages in the fins of some fishes. -- Prop`ter*yg"i*al, a.

Of, pertaining to, or representing the pterygoid and quadrate bones or cartilages.

The bone or cartilage of the carpus which articulates with the radius and corresponds to the scaphoid bone in man.

One of the radiating spines, or cartilages, supporting the fins of fishes.

Having the form of a net, or of network; formed with interstices; retiform; as, reticular cartilage; a reticular leaf.

Of or pertaining to the sesamoid bones or cartilages; sesamoidal. Sesamoid bones, Sesamoid cartilages (Anat.), small bones or cartilages formed in tendons, like the patella and pisiform in man.

the head of a vertebrate animal, including the brain case, or cranium, and the bones and cartilages of the face and mouth. See Illusts. of Carnivora, of Facial angles under Facial, and of Skeleton, in Appendix.

Of or pertaining to the sternum and the ribs; as, the sternocostal cartilages.

Of or pertaining to the sternum and the hyoid bone or cartilage.

Of or pertaining to the sternum and the thyroid cartilage.

A plate of cartilage, or a series of bony or cartilaginous plates or segments, in the median line of the pectoral skeleton of most vertebrates above fishes; the breastbone.

Situated under the arytenoid cartilage of the larynx.

Situated under or beneath a cartilage or cartilages.

Above, or on the dorsal side of, the ethmoid bone or cartilage.

nds or holds up a part: especially, the mandibular suspensorium (a series of bones, or of cartilages representing them) which connects the base of the lower jaw with the skull in most vertebrates below mammals.

An articulation formed by intervening cartilage; as, the pubic symphysis.

An immovable articulation in which the union is formed by cartilage. -- Syn`chon*dro"si*al, a.

A tarsal bone or cartilage; a tarsale. Tarsal tetter (Med.), an eruptive disease of the edges of the eyelids; a kind of bleareye.