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Fibrocartilage   Listen
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Fibrocartilage  n.  (Anat.) A kind of cartilage with a fibrous matrix and approaching fibrous connective tissue in structure.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Fibrocartilage" Quotes from Famous Books



... three ears I'd hear thee!" since she possessed two superfluous ones at the sides of the neck, somewhat lower than the angle of the jaw, which were well developed as to their external contour and made up of fibrocartilage. There is mentioned the case of a boy of six months on the left side of whose neck, over the middle anterior border of the sternocleidomastoid muscle, was a nipple-like projection 1/2 inch in length; a rod of cartilage was prolonged ...
— Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine • George M. Gould



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