(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.
Intercrural
Definition:
(a.) Between crura; -- applied especially to the interneural plates in the vertebral column of many cartilaginous fishes.
Example Sentences:
(1) A comfortable gap between the wall of the artery and the sides of the intercrural foramen is maintained that most likely facilitates the attenuation of potentially disruptive low-frequency vibrations produced by the arterial pressure pulse.
(2) They were identified both deep in the intercrural sulcus, and in the posterior superior fissure.
(3) Distal urethral mobilization and incision of the intercrural septum provided adequate urethral length for tension-free anastomosis.
(4) In about half the cases the abuse consisted of vaginal penetration or intercrural rubbing.
(5) In 13 infants with indwelling umbilical artery catheter and normal angiographic findings in both legs, blood-pressure differences were similarly low in a majority of the infants, but in three of these intercrural differences of 15-20 mmHg were found.
(6) Rostrally, this discontinuity between vermis and hemisphere occupies a position corresponding to the intercrural sulcus of the ansiform lobule of other mammals.
(7) A majority of gay men, believe it or not, do not engage in anal sex; fellatio, mutual masturbation, frot, intercrural sex, are the choice activities of most of them – me included.
(8) Beyond a certain body size, the stapedial artery can no longer function as the sole supplier to its original territory because the diameter of its stem is limited by the size of the intercrural foramen of the stapes, which exhibits strong negative allometry.
(9) Histological examination has revealed that the response areas extend longitudinally from the dorsal surface of crus II to the ventral surface of crus I in the intercrural sulcus, and from the rostral surface of crus I to the caudal surface of lobulus simplex in the posterior superior fissure.
(10) Intercrural systolic blood-pressure differences did not exceed 10 mmHg in 22 healthy infants who were term, pre-term or small for their gestational age (three); as measured simultaneously in both legs with 3-cm wide thigh cuffs and mercury-in-silastic strain gauges around the calves.
(11) Resting and submaximal arterial leg blood-flow, measured with venous occlusion plethysmography, showed larger intercrural differences than blood-pressure, and did not add further information.
(12) A subdivision into the simple lobule (VI and HVI), ansiform and paramedian lobule (HVII) and vermal lobule VII is proposed for this region, which accounts for the position of this cortexless area in the intercrural sulcus.