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cartilage, cartridge
cartilage (KAHR t'l ij) (noun)
Tough white fibrous connective tissue attached to the surfaces of bone joints: When Vicki fell during the tennis match, she tore the cartilage in her knee.
cartridge (KAHR trij) (noun)
1. Small arms ammunition or shotgun shells: Malcolm carried the cartridge of shot gun shells in a special pocket in his jacket.
2. A small modular unit designed to be inserted into a larger piece of equipment: The toner for the office printer came in a cartridge which made it easier to change.
3. A case containing reeled magnetic tape: The small tape recorder required a cartridge of tape in order to record Carlton's speech.
4. A case with photographic film that can be loaded directly into a camera: Homer's old-fashioned camera had a separate cartridge for the film, not a disk.
2. A small modular unit designed to be inserted into a larger piece of equipment: The toner for the office printer came in a cartridge which made it easier to change.
3. A case containing reeled magnetic tape: The small tape recorder required a cartridge of tape in order to record Carlton's speech.
4. A case with photographic film that can be loaded directly into a camera: Homer's old-fashioned camera had a separate cartridge for the film, not a disk.
Dr. Tamara kept the video of her operation on the damaged cartilage of the man's knee in a cartridge in her office.
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Confusing Words Clarified: Group C; Homonyms, Homophones, Homographs, Synonyms, Polysemes, etc.
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“cartilage”
(Greek: groat, grain, any small rounded mass; cartilage, gristle, granule, or a relationship to cartilage)
(Greek: windpipe or one of the two large branches of the trachea, the tube in air-breathing vertebrates that conducts air from the throat to the bronchi, strengthened by incomplete rings of cartilage)
(Greek: ring; used in the extended sense of pertaining to the [ring-shaped] cartilage that forms the back and lower part of the laryngeal cavity)
(Greek meniskos > Latin meniscus: a crescent-shaped body, a curved structure, lunar crescent form, semilunar cartilage; diminutive of mene, "moon")
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“cartilage”
anular cartilage, cricoid cartilage
The lowermost of the laryngeal cartilages; it is shaped like a signet ring, being expanded into a nearly quadrilateral plate (lamina) posteriorly.
The anterior portion is called the arch (arcus).
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annul-, anul-
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cartilage capsule
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capsulo-, capsul-, caps-
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cartilage lacuna, cartilage space
A cavity within the matrix of cartilage, occupied by a chondrocyte.
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lacun-, lacuno- +
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elastic cartilage
Yellow cartilage such as is found in the epiglottis, pharynx, external ears, and auditory tube.
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elasto-, elast- +
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Meckel cartilage
Mandibular cartilage, a cartilage bar in the mandibular arch that forms a temporary supporting structure in the embryonic mandible; the cartilagenous primordia of the malleus and incus develop from its proximal end, and it also gives rise to the sphenomandibular and anterior malleolar ligaments.
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Meckel, Johann Friedrich
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palpebral cartilage; tarsal cartilage
One of the thin plates of connective tissue resembling cartilage that form the framework of the eyelid.