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A translucent, elastic tissue; gristle.

A kind of cartilage with a fibrous matrix and approaching fibrous connective tissue in structure. -- Fi`bro*car`ti*lag"i*nous, a.

The projection formed by the thyroid cartilage in the neck. It is particularly prominent in males, and is so called from a notion that it was caused by the forbidden fruit (an apple) sticking in the throat of our first parent. -- Adam's flannel (Bot.), the mullein (Verbascum thapsus). -- Adam's needle (Bot.), the pop…

Pertaining to expansions of the nasal bone or cartilage.

The curved elevation of the cartilage of the ear, within or in front of the helix. See Ear.

Ladle-shaped; -- applied to two small cartilages of the larynx, and also to the glands, muscles, etc., connected with them. The cartilages are attached to the cricoid cartilage and connected with the vocal cords.

r position at or near a base; forming a base; as, basibranchials, the most ventral of the cartilages or bones of the branchial arches; basicranial, situated at the base of the cranium; basifacial, basitemporal, etc.

A bar of cartilage at the base of the embryonic fins of some fishes. It develops into the metapterygium. -- Ba*sip`ter*yg"i*al (, a.

A knobike protuberance of any part, esp. at the end of a bone or cartilage.

One of the bones or cartilages of the carpus; a carpale. Carpal angle (Zoöl.), the angle at the last joint of the folded wing of a bird.

One of the bones or cartilages of the carpus; esp. one of the series articulating with the metacarpals.

The wrist; the bones or cartilages between the forearm, or antibrachium, and the hand or forefoot; in man, consisting of eight short bones disposed in two rows.

The act or process of forming cartilage. Wright.

Of or pertaining to cartilage; gristly; firm and tough like cartilage.

Pertaining to the bone, or cartilage, below the epibranchial in a branchial arch. -- n.

A ceratohyal bone, or cartilage, which, in man, forms one of the small horns of the hyoid.

Formation of, or conversion into, cartilage.

To convert, or be converted, into cartilage.

The chemical basis of cartilage, converted by long boiling in water into a gelatinous body called chondrin.

An inflammation of cartilage.