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Word Meanings - FIBROCARTILAGE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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

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  • CARTILAGE
    A translucent, elastic tissue; gristle. Note: Cartilage contains no vessels, and consists of a homogeneous, intercellular matrix, in which there are numerous minute cavities, or capsules, containing protoplasmic cells, the cartilage corpuscul. See
  • TISSUED
    Clothed in, or adorned with, tissue; also, variegated; as, tissued flowers. Cowper. And crested chiefs and tissued dames Assembled at the clarion's call. T. Warton.
  • CONNECTIVELY
    In connjunction; jointly.
  • APPROACHABLENESS
    The quality or state of being approachable; accessibility.
  • STRUCTURE
    Manner of organization; the arrangement of the different tissues or parts of animal and vegetable organisms; as, organic structure, or the structure of animals and plants; cellular structure. 5. That which is built; a building; esp., a building
  • APPROACHLESS
    Impossible to be approached.
  • CONNECTIVE
    Connecting, or adapted to connect; involving connection. Connection tissue See Conjunctive tissue, under Conjunctive.
  • TISSUE
    One of the elementary materials or fibres, having a uniform structure and a specialized function, of which ordinary animals and plants are composed; a texture; as, epithelial tissue; connective tissue. Note: The term tissue is also often applied
  • FIBROUS
    Containing, or consisting of, fibers; as, the fibrous coat of the cocoanut; the fibrous roots of grasses. -- Fi"brous*ness, n.
  • APPROACHMENT
    Approach. Holland.
  • APPROACHABILITY
    The quality of being approachable; approachableness.
  • STRUCTURELESS
    Without a definite structure, or arrangement of parts; without organization; devoid of cells; homogeneous; as, a structureless membrane.
  • APPROACHING
    The act of ingrafting a sprig or shoot of one tree into another, without cutting it from the parent stock; -- called, also, inarching and grafting by approach.
  • APPROACHER
    One who approaches.
  • APPROACH
    1. To come or go near, in place or time; to draw nigh; to advance nearer. Wherefore approached ye so nigh unto the city 2 Sam. xi. 20. But exhorting one another; and so much the more, as ye see the day approaching. Heb. x. 25. 2. To draw near,
  • APPROACHABLE
    Capable of being approached; accessible; as, approachable virtue.
  • STRUCTURED
    Having a definite organic structure; showing differentiation of parts. The passage from a structureless state to a structured state is itself a vital process. H. Spencer.
  • MATRIX
    The womb. All that openeth the matrix is mine. Ex. xxxiv. 19. 2. Hence, that which gives form or origin to anything; as: The cavity in which anything is formed, and which gives it shape; a die; a mold, as for the face of a type. The earthy or stony
  • FIBROCARTILAGE
    A kind of cartilage with a fibrous matrix and approaching fibrous connective tissue in structure. -- Fi`bro*car`ti*lag"i*nous, a.
  • INTERTISSUED
    Interwoven. Shak.
  • SUBFIBROUS
    Somewhat fibrous.
  • REAPPROACH
    To approach again or anew.
  • SUPERSTRUCTURE
    all that part of a building above the basement. Also used figuratively. You have added to your natural endowments the superstructure of study. Dryden. (more info) 1. Any material structure or edifice built on something else; that which is raised
  • INAPPROACHABLE
    Not approachable; unapproachable; inaccessible; unequaled. -- In`ap*proach"a*bly, adv.
  • ENTERTISSUED
    See INTERTISSUED

 

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