cartilages
- plural of cartilage.
Example Sentences
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First, the tiny cartilages in the human larynx -- called the arytenoids -- that change the position of our vocal folds, have changed dramatically in whales.
From Science Daily • Feb. 21, 2024
This ancient fish had separated, independent cartilages encasing the brain, rather than the solid bone or cartilage structure of jawless and jawed fish that followed it.
From Science Daily • Sep. 20, 2023
The manubrium is joined to the body of the sternum at the sternal angle, which is also the site for attachment of the second rib costal cartilages.
From Textbooks • Jun. 19, 2013
Instead, their small costal cartilages terminate within the musculature of the lateral abdominal wall.
From Textbooks • Jun. 19, 2013
The neural arch develops from the basidorsal cartilages that rest upon, and at first are entirely distinct from, the perichordal sheath.
From The Ancestry of Modern Amphibia: A Review of the Evidence by Eaton, Theodore H. (Theodore Hildreth)
