cartilage
English Thesaurus
1. tough elastic tissue; mostly converted to bone in adults (noun.body)
| hypernym | : | animal tissue, |
| definition | : | the tissue in the bodies of animals (noun.body) |
| hyponym | : | meniscus, semilunar cartilage, |
| definition | : | (anatomy) a disk of cartilage that serves as a cushion between the ends of bones that meet at a joint (noun.body) |
| hyponym | : | fibrocartilage, |
| definition | : | cartilage that is largely composed of fibers like those in ordinary connective tissue (noun.body) |
| hyponym | : | hyaline cartilage, |
| definition | : | translucent cartilage that is common in joints and the respiratory passages; forms most of the fetal skeleton (noun.body) |
| substance holonym | : | collagen, |
| definition | : | a fibrous scleroprotein in bone and cartilage and tendon and other connective tissue; yields gelatin on boiling (noun.body) |
| derivation | : | cartilaginous, |
| definition | : | of or relating to cartilage (adj.pert) |
| derivation | : | cartilaginous, |
| definition | : | of or relating to cartilage (adj.pert) |
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