Word Meanings - INTERCARTILAGINOUS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Within cartilage; endochondral; as, intercartilaginous ossification.

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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
• INTERCARTILAGINOUS
  Within cartilage; endochondral; as, intercartilaginous ossification.
• ENDOCHONDRAL
  Growing or developing within cartilage; -- applied esp. to developing bone.
• WITHINSIDE
  In the inner parts; inside. Graves.
• OSSIFICATION
  The formation of bone; the process, in the growth of an animal, by which inorganic material is deposited in cartilage or membrane, forming bony tissue; ostosis. Note: Besides the natural ossification of growing tissue, there is the so-called
• WITHIN
  with, against, toward + innan in, inwardly, within, from in in. See 1. In the inner or interior part of; inside of; not without; as, within doors. O, unhappy youth! Come not within these doors; within this roof The enemy of all your graces lives.
• WITHINFORTH
  Within; inside; inwardly. Wyclif. labor for to withinforth call into mind, without sight of the eye withoutforth upon images, what he before knew and thought upon. Bp. Peacock.
• FLOSSIFICATION
  A flowering; florification. Craig.
• FIBROCARTILAGE
  A kind of cartilage with a fibrous matrix and approaching fibrous connective tissue in structure. -- Fi`bro*car`ti*lag"i*nous, a.
• GROSSIFICATION
  The swelling of the ovary of plants after fertilization. Henslow. (more info) 1. The act of making gross or thick, or the state of becoming so.