cartilage bone


noun
  1. a bone that develops from cartilage.

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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. Reynolds
  • The lower jaw or mandible remains partly cartilaginous, while its ossifications include two membrane bones and one cartilage bone.

    The Vertebrate Skeleton | Sidney H. Reynolds
  • The cartilage bone is the mento-meckelian (fig. 26, A, 14), a very small ossification at the extreme anterior end.

    The Vertebrate Skeleton | Sidney H. Reynolds
  • It remains to a considerable extent cartilaginous, but is partly converted into cartilage bone, partly sheathed in membrane bone.

    The Vertebrate Skeleton | Sidney H. Reynolds
  • Each 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

cartilage bone

noun
  1. any bone that develops within cartilage rather than in a fibrous tissue membrane: Compare membrane bone

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