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Cartilage that is largely composed of fibers like those in ordinary connective tissue
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fibrocartilage
Word definitions for fibrocartilage in dictionaries
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
White fibrocartilage consists of a mixture of white fibrous tissue and cartilaginous tissue in various proportions. It owes its flexibility and toughness to the former of these constituents, and its elasticity to the latter. It is the only type of cartilage ...
Wiktionary
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n. A tough form of cartilage that has a matrix of dense bundles of fibres.
WordNet
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n. cartilage that is largely composed of fibers like those in ordinary connective tissue
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Fibrocartilage \Fi`bro*car"ti*lage\, n. [L. fibra a fiber + E. cartilage.] (Anat.) A kind of cartilage with a fibrous matrix and approaching fibrous connective tissue in structure. -- Fi`bro*car`ti*lag"i*nous , a.
Usage examples of fibrocartilage.
This result surprised me much, as two physiologists were of opinion that fibrocartilage would be easily digested by gastric juice.
My son Francis prepared some artificial gastric juice, which was proved efficient by quickly dissolving fibrin, and suspended portions of the fibrocartilage in it.
Again, fibrocartilage, though not properly dissolved, is acted on in the same manner, both by the secretion of Drosera and gastric juice.
It slowly resumed the normal position by the elasticity of the intervertebral fibrocartilage, and there was complete recovery in ten days.