cartilage bone
Americannoun
noun
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But the placenta is a richer source of stem cells, which give rise to a wider variety of tissues—from the liver, pancreas, and heart to cartilage, bone, blood vessels, blood, and muscle.
From Science Magazine • Mar. 31, 2024
The FDA regulates blood, cartilage, bone, skin and egg cells as human tissues or under similar customized statutes.
From Nature • Feb. 19, 2014
Unlike cartilage, bone tissue can recover from injuries in a relatively short time.
From Textbooks • Jun. 19, 2013
Following Aristotle especially, he regarded hair, nails, arteries, veins, cartilage, bone, ligament, membranes, glands, fat, and muscle as the simplest constituents of the body, formed immediately from the blood, and perfectly homogeneous in character.
From Fathers of Biology by McRae, Charles
In all cartilage is dotted, cartilage bone cross-barred, and membrane bone, white.
From Text Book of Biology, Part 1: Vertebrata by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)
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