(a.) Of or pertaining to cartilage; gristly; firm and tough like cartilage.
(a.) Having the skeleton in the state of cartilage, the bones containing little or no calcareous matter; said of certain fishes, as the sturgeon and the sharks.
Example Sentences:
(1) Dysplasia epiphysealis hemimelica - an epiphyseal developmental disturbance of the skeleton - is combined with exostose-like, tumor-simulating cartilaginous hypertrophy of bone tissue, mainly located at the epiphyses of the lower extremities and at the tarsal bones.
(2) US clearly images the cartilaginous femoral head and enables accurate assessment of hip size, shape, and symmetry.
(3) Cells taking up label are found scattered throughout the large cartilaginous epiphyses.
(4) The carpus is initially a cartilaginous structure that subsequently demarcates into separate carpal bones.
(5) Ultrastructural examination of noncartilaginous regions of the tumor demonstrated mesenchymal cells with features suggestive of cartilaginous differentiation, viz, scalloped cell membranes, sac-like distension of abundant rough endoplasmic reticulum, and a matrix containing fibrillary and finely granular material.
(6) Any process which weakens the cartilaginous endplate or the subchondral cancellous bone may predispose to the development of Schmorl's nodes.
(7) This malformation was demonstrated in alcian-blue- and alizarin-red-stained fetal skeletons by measurements of the distance between the cartilaginous ends of each vertebral arch.
(8) In the secondary cartilages, type I collagen was present throughout the cartilaginous cell layers, and type II collagen was restricted to the ECM of the mature and hypertrophic cell layers.
(9) Relapsing polychondritis is a systemic disease of unknown etiology with predominate manifestations of multiorgan cartilaginous inflammation.
(10) The trachea was transected at the fifth cartilaginous ring and then anastomosed with continuous 6-0 polypropylene (Prolene) (group 1), interrupted 6-0 polypropylene (group 2), continuous 6-0 polydioxanone (PDS) (group 3), or interrupted 6-0 PDS (group 4).
(11) These studies showed that the cartilaginous cap of human osteophytes has the capacity to synthesize the entire repertoire of sulphated proteoglycans of mature hyaline cartilage.
(12) The cartilaginous potential of the perichondrium has earlier been utilized to reconstruct articular cartilage in unloaded joints in adult rabbits.
(13) However, extrasynovial intra-articular cartilaginous lesions may persist after synovectomy in the other two phases and may grow, causing recurrence of clinical symptoms in the absence of new intrasynovial disease.
(14) MPS consists of a heterogeneous group of hereditary diseases which are characterized by an abnormal accumulation of mucopolysaccharides, especially in cartilaginous and bone tissue.
(15) Histological examination revealed cartilaginous growth across the tracheostomy incision only in animals having the flap tracheostomy.
(16) The dorsal cartilaginous mass arching over the anterior vertebrae is formed by the basidorsals of the second, third, and fourth vertebrae.
(17) The regenerated tail of the New Zealand gecko Hoplodactylus maculatus is equipped with an elastic cartilaginous tube as skeletal axis.
(18) It occupied the vascular connective tissue within the anterior portion of a distinct groove on the inferolateral wall of the cartilaginous calcaneus between the retrotrochlear eminence anterosuperiorly, and the lateral process of the tuber posteroinferiorly.
(19) However, a wide range of damage to the soft tissue and cartilaginous framework of the larynx may result from such injuries but signs of injury are easily overlooked leading to potentially serious consequences for the patient.
(20) At more than 30 days of age, however, untreated mice showed completely calcified pelvic bone, whereas in age-matched Tx mice the greater part of the junctional regions in the pelvis remained cartilaginous.
Chimaera
Definition:
(n.) A cartilaginous fish of several species, belonging to the order Holocephali. The teeth are few and large. The head is furnished with appendages, and the tail terminates in a point.
Example Sentences:
(1) A chimaera, called pCS200, which mediated expression of the CS1 or CS2 fimbrial antigen but not of CS3 fimbrial antigen in appropriate host strains, was obtained.
(2) In additional experiments, F1 to parental bone-marrow chimaeras were constructed such that the bone-marrow-derived cells and the non-bone-marrow-derived cells were of different RT-1 allotypes.
(3) Our motility analyses of the chimaeras confirmed that transplanted thoracic somitic mesoderm gives rise to brachial musculature and that the experimental muscles maintained the inherent dystrophic phenotype.
(4) Nevertheless, in a substantial proportion of chimaeras, OCs colonized derivatives of the ICM.
(5) These share a common placental circulation and hence develop as haematopoietic chimaeras.
(6) Results in a group of AKR reversible CBA leukaemia susceptible reversible resistant chimaeras suggest resistance is dominant.
(7) The [lpr----lpr] chimaeras were similar to untreated lpr mice.
(8) This leads to the total elimination of cell populations with one genotype, rat in particular in the mouse--rat chimaeras, or, possibly, to the sterility of the sheep--goat chimaeras.
(9) Germ-line transmission of the inactivated IGF-II gene from male chimaeras yielded heterozygous progeny that were smaller than their ES cell-derived wild-type littermates (about 60% of normal body weight).
(10) Plasmid pRB1, a representative chimaera carrying only the 3.3 kbp Sau3A fragment of pCB101, was successfully transferred from B. subtilis back to E. coli.
(11) Using the chick-quail chimaera technique we also studied the fate of each half-somite.
(12) By using the cytotoxic test, we found that both tolerant and nontolerant recipients were complete chimaeras, i.e., had only (C57BL x CBA-T6T6)F1 cells in their lymph nodes.
(13) Cell line SIKR-OSB resulted in one normal chimaera in 44 mice born.
(14) Two surgical embryo transfers to the chimaera resulted in pregnancies.
(15) The results demonstrate that the properties of protein domains are not always additive in a particular chimaera.
(16) Therefore, the possibility that the defect in development of P primitive ectoderms resided in their extra-embryonic tissues was investigated by analysing a series of chimaeras produced by injecting them into intact F blastocysts.
(17) Totally allogeneic chimaeras could be sensitized but only if given antigen in association with the appropriate Mph.
(18) The ultrastructure of T and B lymphocytes has been examined in long-term syngeneic chimaeras and age-control mice.
(19) delta-crystallin expression in these tissues is due to proper transcriptional regulation, since no expression was observed when chimaeras were produced with the ES lines carrying the mutant gene.
(20) Therefore, the lymphoid aplasia of [lpr----wild] radiation chimaeras does not result from an lpr graft-versus-host-like syndrome.