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Hand. [Obs.] Chaucer.

See Antihypochondriac.

Counteractive of hypochondria. -- n.

Chondritis of a joint.

Formation of, or conversion into, cartilage.

To convert, or be converted, into cartilage.

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

Affording chondrin.

A colorless, amorphous, nitrogenous substance, tasteless and odorless, formed from cartilaginous tissue by long-continued action of boiling water. It is similar to gelatin, and is a large ingredient of commercial gelatin.

A meteoric stone characterized by the presence of chondrules.

g to, or having the granular structure characteristic of, the class of meteorites called chondrites.

An inflammation of cartilage.

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

A fluosilicate of magnesia and iron, yellow to red in color, often occurring in granular form in a crystalline limestone.

An order of ganoid fishes, including the sturgeons; -- so called on account of their cartilaginous skeleton.

Same as Chondrigen.

The development of cartilage.

Resembling cartilage.

The science which treats of cartilages. Dunglison.

A cartilaginous tumor or growth.