cartilage bone
a bone that develops from cartilage.
- Compare membrane bone.
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How to use cartilage bone in a sentence
In Bony Ganoids both cartilage bone and membrane bone is well developed.
The Vertebrate Skeleton | Sidney H. ReynoldsThe lower jaw or mandible remains partly cartilaginous, while its ossifications include two membrane bones and one cartilage bone.
The Vertebrate Skeleton | Sidney H. ReynoldsThe cartilage bone is the mento-meckelian (fig. 26, A, 14), a very small ossification at the extreme anterior end.
The Vertebrate Skeleton | Sidney H. ReynoldsIt remains to a considerable extent cartilaginous, but is partly converted into cartilage bone, partly sheathed in membrane bone.
The Vertebrate Skeleton | Sidney H. ReynoldsEach ramus of the mandible always consists of a cartilage bone, the articular, and several membrane bones.
The Vertebrate Skeleton | Sidney H. Reynolds
British Dictionary definitions for cartilage bone
any bone that develops within cartilage rather than in a fibrous tissue membrane: Compare membrane bone
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